A number of countries have joined Human Rights Watch, the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, and others in calling for such a prohibition. A ban is easier to enforce than regulation, and increases ...

Neal joined Mashable’s Social Good team in 2024, editing and writing stories about digital culture and its effects on the environment and marginalized communities. He is the former editorial director ...

NEW YORK -- Autonomous weapons systems, or "killer robots," have no fear, no anger, and no guilt or hesitation about pulling the trigger. They do as their programming tells them to.

The open letter signed by more than 12,000 prominent people calling for a ban on artificially intelligent killer robots, connected to arguments for a UN ban on the same, is misguided and perhaps even ...

Killer robots may soon be a reality as an informal informal meeting of the United Nations will be discussing it. The BBC reports that the robotic experts Prof Ronald Arkin of Georgia Institute of ...

AI technology is poised to transform national security. In the United States, experts and policymakers are already experimenting with large language models that can aid in strategic decision-making in ...

SAN FRANCISCO--San Francisco supervisors voted Tuesday to put the brakes on a controversial policy that would have let police use robots for deadly force, reversing course just days after their ...