Elon Musk and DeepMind vow not to develop AI for lethal weapons

Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, have signed, together with more than 2, 400 other artificial intelligence researchers and entrepreneurs, an agreement not to develop autonomous robots capable of killing people.

The appointment was published during this year's edition of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, which takes place in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. He says the decision to take a person's life should never be the responsibility of a machine and weapon systems that use artificial intelligence to select their targets are a threat.

The deal says the decision to take a person's life should never be the responsibility of a machine.

"Thousands of researchers in artificial intelligence agree that by removing the risk, imputability and difficulty of taking human lives, lethal autonomous weapons could become a powerful instrument of violence and oppression, especially when linked to surveillance and data systems, " says one. excerpt from the agreement.

It is difficult to predict whether the letter will actually have any effect in this area, but it makes it clear that companies will have to take some position on AI in this type of equipment. Last month, Google faced widespread criticism after the Maven project went public, a technology used in military areas by the United States government.

Elon Musk, who signed the deal, is also known to be critical of the use of artificial intelligence in this field, even claiming that AI can be more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

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Elon Musk and DeepMind promise not to develop AI for lethal weapons via TecMundo