Tesla’s Elon Musk, and Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and head of Applied AI at Google-owned DeepMind Technologies, are among others requesting the United Nations to ban autonomous weapons. The Guardian’s Samuel Gibbs writes.
Elon Musk leads 116 experts calling for outright ban of killer robots — The Guardian
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