During his time in office, President-elect Donald Trump will have to make crucial decisions about whether the United States pursues advanced military technology, like so-called killer robots, allowing machines making life-or-death decisions, a report says.
It all sounds like science fiction, but a new era of machines empowered to make decisions about life and death of humans is set to begin as research in artificial intelligence has made significant progress, Politico reported on Monday.
“We’re on the doorstep of what armed conflict looks like in the 21st century,” August Cole, a security analyst and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told the American news publication.
US military planners have been focusing on developing lethal machines that select and attack their own targets in an effort to expand increasingly intelligent war weapons, including precision-guided missiles and remotely piloted drones.
The US military has already tested…