For far too long, two specters have been haunting the world of artificial intelligence and warfare, and they both featured in ...

Killer robots may soon be a reality as an informal informal meeting of the United Nations will be discussing it. The BBC reports that the robotic experts Prof Ronald Arkin of Georgia Institute of ...

TL;DR: Two Pentagon officials disclosed a shift from investing in AI to focusing on developing autonomous killer robots. The Pentagon is moving toward investing in autonomous killer robots and less in ...

China’s latest military gadget looks like it was ripped from a science fiction storyboard: a motion-controlled combat robot ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries are meeting at the United Nations on Monday to revive efforts to regulate the kinds of AI-controlled autonomous weapons increasingly used in modern warfare, as experts warn ...

As the war grinds on, sophisticated Russian defenses have pushed Ukraine to develop a frightening new weapon: semiautonomous ...

By the year 2035, the report warns that law enforcement departments will need to deal with “crimes by robots, such as drones” that are “used as tools in theft,” not to mention “automated vehicles ...

Human Rights Watch issued an report on “killer robots,” automated AI weapons which can kill people without human instruction or oversight, ahead of the first United Nations General Assembly meeting on ...

Why the United Nations is meeting to discuss the future of warfare. May 13, 2014— -- Is it time to stop the Terminator in its tracks? Some of the best and brightest leaders are meeting for a ...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- San Mateo County's Board of Supervisors on Tuesday pondered proposing a nationwide ban on something that doesn't exist -- yet. But a growing list of scientists say they ...

You know what Russia absolutely doesn't need? An army of autonomous robot soldiers. Yet, the Kremlin is confirming that they do want lethal robots, at the same time the United Nations is holding ...