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UN official says battlefield robots that can kill without human control are a ‘small step’ away
Killer robots programmed to open fire without human control are just a “small step” from the battlefield and military powers should agree to outlaw them, a top United Nations official has said. Angela Kane, the
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Robots could murder us out of KINDNESS unless they are taught the value of human life, engineer claims
Future generations could be exterminated by Terminator-style robots unless machines are taught the value of human life. This is the stark warning made by Amsterdam-based engineer Nell Watson, who believes droids could kill humans out
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U.S. Government Invests in Robot Personal Trainers for Children
The evolution of humanoid robots continues to quicken with greater strides being made toward applying artificial intelligence to create emotional robots. The commitment to reverse engineer the human brain coupled with the exponential increase in
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“We May Only Have a Few Years” To Prevent Killer Robots
The arrival date of The Singularity - the point at which artificial intelligence surpasses that of humans - is accelerating. In Ray Kurzweil's 2006 book, The Singularity is Near, he put the final date
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Ban on Terminator Robots Postponed at United Nations Convention
Ethics is very often the final concern of science, especially where military endeavors are concerned. Drones and robots are finally becoming front page news after a series of warnings from prominent scientists and researchers who
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Scientists: Robots Could be Programmed to Kill You ‘For the Greater Good’
Autonomous vehicles present ‘morally dangerous path’ As the United Nations debates legislation that could outlaw ‘killer robots’, scientists predict that artificially intelligent systems could one day decide to kill humans “for the greater good.”
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Genetically Modifying Humans Via Antibiotics? Something You Need To Know
A new kind of antibiotic has been developed by researchers at Oregon State University. The new antibiotics are called PPMOs, which stand for peptide-conjugated phosphorodiamidate morpholino oligomers. They are “a synthetic analog of DNA
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All In The (Robotic) Family
As the evolution of humanoid robots continues to quicken, it is forcing the question of whether or not we we will love our robotic overlords. Or, are they not "overlords" at all, but soon
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Humanity’s Ultimate Weapon
Humanity is presently locked in a pitched battle for survival. Our traditions, our cultures, our health and longevity, our mental health and our spiritual well-being, are gravely threatened by self-serving allies of some very
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DARPA to Genetically Engineer Humans by Adding a 47th Chromosome
We’re no molecular biologists over here, but have you ever seen the sci-fi flick Gattaca? In that 1997 film, society is structured around eugenics as people are bioengineered to be ‘perfect specimens’, and one’s entire
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Meet the real life Terminator: Most advanced robot ever is able to walk through battlefields as bullets fly and even nuclear disaster zones to rescue the injured
At 6ft 2in tall and weighing 330lb Atlas is a formidable figure. And with 28 hydraulically actuated joints and stereo vision, it is one of the most advanced robots ever
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Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines
Most people don't know about the existence of quantum computers. Almost no one understands how they work, but theories include bizarre-sounding explanations like, "they reach into alternate universes to derive the correct answers to
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Darpa Robotics Challenge: the search for the perfect robot soldier
The Atlas robot looks something out of the post-apocalyptic future, or maybe a Will Smith blockbuster. It's a 330lb cyborg with eerily human-like hands and a head equipped with a laser. It lunges forward
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No swarms in space: DARPA axes $200mn ‘fractionated sat’ project
After spending more than $200 million, the Pentagon’s advanced research branch has decided to scrap one of its key space projects, System F6, which aimed to distribute functions of a big satellite into several
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Human takeover by machines may be closer than we think
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea of superintelligent machines may sound like the plot of "The Terminator" or "The Matrix," but many experts say the idea isn't far-fetched. Some even think
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Pentagon to Build Robots With ‘Real’ Brains
A Pentagon-funded team of scientists have constructed a machine that functions like a human brain and would enable robots to think independently and act autonomously
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Pentagon’s DARPA reveals their most human-like robot yet
The Pentagon’s army of space-age robot warriors is getting a lot more real. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, has released video footage of a project that’s been long in the works and
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Next generation military robots have minds of their own
Think of advanced robotics, and it is easy to let your mind wander to the sentient beings depicted in Blade Runner, or the soulless, autonomous assassins in the Terminator franchise. But, despite widespread press about
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Activists launch campaign against ‘autonomous weapons’: Killer robots must be stopped
Autonomous weapons’, which could be ready within a decade, pose grave risk to international law, claim activists A new global campaign to persuade nations to ban “killer robots” before they reach the production stage is
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NGO Warns Against DARPA Development of Autonomous Synthetic Soldiers
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has released a report entitled “Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots” which warns that autonomous synthetic armed forces lack conscious empathy that human soldiers have and could perform
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