In preparation for this week’s UN Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva, Switzerland, the Future of Life…

As we head deeper into the 21st century, the prospect of getting robots to do the dirty business of killing gets…

A former Pentagon official is warning that autonomous weapons would likely be uncontrollable in real-world…

Devices like laser-guided bombs and nonlethal weapons have the potential to reduce civilian casualties and wanton…

Earlier this summer, more than a thousand prominent thinkers and specialists signed an open letter calling for a ban…

This week, an open letter was presented at an AI conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina calling for a ban on…

Two decades is not a lot in the grand scheme of things, but owing to accelerating change we can expect to see the…

Long a staple of science fiction, the notion of autonomous robots that can kill is starting to take root in the…