Can autonomous weapons still be regulated?

Berlin The war in Ukraine is often taking place according to decades-old strategies: artillery fire, trenches, house-to-house fighting. But the massive use of drones to recon and engage enemy positions shows that “weapons are getting smarter,” says Stuart Russell.

The computer scientist from the University of California at Berkeley fears that autonomous deadly weapons could soon be used in conflicts.

“None of them have been used in Ukraine yet,” he writes in a commentary in the journal Nature. But action is urgently needed. “The governments of the world must limit the use of artificial intelligence in war. Nobody wants a bleak future where we are threatened by robots.”

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