{"id":287312,"date":"2016-12-26T12:43:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T11:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-militarys-killer-robots-await-trumps-approval-report\/"},"modified":"2016-12-26T12:43:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T11:43:56","slug":"us-militarys-killer-robots-await-trumps-approval-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-militarys-killer-robots-await-trumps-approval-report\/","title":{"rendered":"US military&#039;s killer robots await Trump\u2019s approval: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>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. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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, <em>Politico <\/em>reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re on the doorstep of what armed conflict looks like in the 21st century,&#8221; August Cole, a security analyst and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, told the American news publication.<\/p>\n<p>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. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The US military has already tested&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/26\/503539\/Killer-robots-await-Trump-green-light\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. \u00a0 It all sounds like science fiction, but a new era of machines empowered to make decisions about life and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}