<story><title>Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA&amp;t=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jononor</author><text>Could forbid weapons to take kill actions themselves, each instance having to be activated by a human operator.&lt;p&gt;Could also forbid self-replication of weaponized robots.</text></item><item><author>nradov</author><text>How would you write such a treaty? Limit the CPU speed of weapons systems or something? Totally unenforceable.</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>We can make it considered unacceptable and against international law. Like chemical weapons. Which still happen, but not as much as they would if the U.S were, say, planning on using them all over the place, doing heavy R&amp;amp;D into them, and selling them to other people. Like, you know, robot kill bots.</text></item><item><author>neuro_imager</author><text>Unfortunately I don&amp;#x27;t see a way this can be avoided.There has never been a weapon humanity imagined, designed, and built that it has not used. AI will be no different.&lt;p&gt;A ban would be impossible to implement. What exactly would you ban? AI? Drones? facial recognition? Once you have a certain level of capability in these technologies, weaponising these things is the easy part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jstanley</author><text>Why not go one step further and say that nobody is allowed to take a kill action? Killing is murder.&lt;p&gt;Not sarcastic.</text></comment>
<story><title>Slaughterbots: Stop Autonomous Weapons [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA&amp;t=</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jononor</author><text>Could forbid weapons to take kill actions themselves, each instance having to be activated by a human operator.&lt;p&gt;Could also forbid self-replication of weaponized robots.</text></item><item><author>nradov</author><text>How would you write such a treaty? Limit the CPU speed of weapons systems or something? Totally unenforceable.</text></item><item><author>jrochkind1</author><text>We can make it considered unacceptable and against international law. Like chemical weapons. Which still happen, but not as much as they would if the U.S were, say, planning on using them all over the place, doing heavy R&amp;amp;D into them, and selling them to other people. Like, you know, robot kill bots.</text></item><item><author>neuro_imager</author><text>Unfortunately I don&amp;#x27;t see a way this can be avoided.There has never been a weapon humanity imagined, designed, and built that it has not used. AI will be no different.&lt;p&gt;A ban would be impossible to implement. What exactly would you ban? AI? Drones? facial recognition? Once you have a certain level of capability in these technologies, weaponising these things is the easy part.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Joeri</author><text>If you deploy automated drone factories that send out millions of these things, and then have an army of people all pressing &amp;quot;kill&amp;quot; buttons as if they were doing a quick-fire arcade game, without even seeing what they were killing, it would comply with the rules you describe.</text></comment>