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Should Algorithms Control Nuclear Weapons Launch Codes? The US Says No
Last Thursday, the US State Department outlined a new vision for developing, testing, and verifying military systems—including weapons—that make use…
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San Francisco’s Killer Police Robots Threaten the City’s Most Vulnerable
One effect of AB 481 is to add local oversight to hardware like the kind obtained through a US Department…
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Amazon’s New Robot Sparrow Can Handle Most Items in the Everything Store
Amazon built an ecommerce empire by automating much of the work needed to move goods and pack orders in its…
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Drone Contraband Deliveries Are Rampant at US Prisons
It’s not children who are committing these heists, of course. It’s people running jobs on the inside and the outside.…
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Autonomous Drones Could Soon Run the UK’s Energy Grid
“We’re moving into a future where these drones will fly themselves all over the countryside,” McKenna says. “But the long-term…
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Axon’s Taser-Drone Plans Prompt AI Ethics Board Resignations
A majority of Axon’s AI Ethics Board resigned in protest yesterday, following an announcement last week that the company planned…
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Axon’s Taser Drone Plans Prompt AI Ethics Board Resignations
A majority of Axon’s AI ethics board resigned in protest yesterday, following an announcement last week that the company planned…
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Russia’s Killer Drone in Ukraine Raises Fears About AI in Warfare
A Russian “suicide drone” that boasts the ability to identify targets using artificial intelligence has been spotted in images of…
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Autonomous Weapons Are Here, but the World Isn’t Ready for Them
This may be remembered as the year when the world learned that lethal autonomous weapons had moved from a futuristic…
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Drones May Help Replant Forests—If Enough Seeds Take Root
The researchers identified 10 tree-planting drone companies as well as university research in India and government reforestation efforts in New…
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