Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking calling for a ban of artificially intelligent weapons

[Normchacho]

-CraZed- said:

SvennoJ said:
I don't really want the military with AI weapons either...
It's a sad state of affairs that advancements in AI are most likely to come from military research. Instead of autonomous robots to farm, build solar plants, reforest or explore other planets, we'll first get smart weapons and autonomous surveillance.

Hate to break it to ya but there is a laundry list of important advancements that have come from military applications.

Nuclear fission, Teflon, large computer technology, composites, radar, integrated circuits, spread spectrum technology, rocket technology which we use to launch satellites, GPS, microwave technologies, drone technology, plus many other contributions in the areas of civil engineering  and not to mention the medical advancements we have today was largely driven by military research.

But as for a ban on AI weapons. Why? It's science unfettered. I mean, where does morality come into play here? And besides, we can control it. What could go wrong?

 

Who's we? Do you mean people? Because even though that's true, AI weapons could be devisating and as has been mentioned, aren't limited by rare, or difficult to create matterials like nukes are. The problem isn't whether people could control them, it's which people control them.