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A comment on Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics Researchers.

Re:Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics R... by jgome on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:12PM (#9956932)
> In summary, we believe that AI has great potential to benefit humanity in many ways, and that the goal of the field should be to do so. Starting a military AI arms race is a bad idea, and should be prevented by a ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.

Why only ban offensive autonomous weapons? Why not ban them all? How is offensive different from defensive in this context?

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Re:Autonomous Weapons: An Open Letter from AI and Robotics R... by Emunt on Monday July 27, 2015 @02:17PM (#9956970)
An autonomous ballistic missile defense system would have a lot less impact than an AI that had control of a few missiles. I do agree that there still could be some danger though.
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