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Friday, November 16, 2007

Automated Killers and the Computing Profession

From the November 2007 issue of the IEEE Computer Magazine:

When will we realize that our artificial-intelligence and autonomous-robotics research projects have been harnessed to manufacture killing machines? This is not terminator-style science fiction but grim reality: South Korea and Israel have both deployed armed robot border guards, while other nations—including China, India, Russia, Singa- pore, and the UK—increasingly use military robots.

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