Google employee resigns, warns 'killer robots' could start war

A former employee of Google who has resigned said a new generation of autonomous weapons or “killer robots” could accidentally start a war or cause mass atrocities.

Nolan said killer robots not guided by human remote control should be outlawed by the same type of international treaty that bans chemical weapons. Nolan, who has joined the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and has briefed UN diplomats in New York and Geneva over the dangers posed by autonomous weapons, said: “The likelihood of a disaster is in proportion to how many of these machines will be in a particular area at once. What you are looking at are possible atrocities and unlawful killings even under laws of warfare, especially if hundreds or thousands of these machines are deployed.

Instead of using large numbers of military operatives to spool through hours and hours of drone video footage of potential enemy targets, Nolan and others were asked to build a system where AI machines could differentiate people and objects at an infinitely faster rate. Although she resigned over Project Maven, Nolan has predicted that autonomous weapons being developed pose a far greater risk to the human race than remote-controlled drones.

“If you are testing a machine that is making its own decisions about the world around it then it has to be in real-time.

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