Nations Must Address Threat of Robotic Weaponry 'by 2018'
- Panel at WEF included BAE Systems Plc chairman Sir Roger Carr
- Shrinking size of autonomous drones highlighted as a concern
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With the possibility of a future world war fought by autonomous robots lacking a human moral compass, a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, urged global leaders to address the threat soon.
“We have a fairly short time horizon to act,” said Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. “If within the next two years the main parties aren’t drawn into serious negotiations ... it may be too late.”