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JULY 2016 Future Cities & Robotics

Until now, it was just in the science fiction movies, but now, it is known that the“ killer robots” are possible. Throughout the world, there are around 40 countries that are engaged in building autonomous robots. Probably, the day is not far when the humanity has to be on war against the machines for their survival. There are talks that the world is nearing an autonomous arms race. To stop this kind of a destructive war, which can have a devastating impact on the entire humanity, some great scientists of the world have come together. They have filed a petition to the governments all around the world to put ban on

autonomous weapons. There are some high profile names on the list of petitioners including Prof. Stephen Hawking, Tesla’ s CEO Elon Musk, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. They have joined hands to put a ban on the designing and development of weapons that can autonomously“ select and engage targets without human interventions.”

The letter of declaration states:“ AI technology has reached a point where the deployment of [ autonomous weapons ] is – practically if not legally – feasible within years, not decades,