The lives and deaths of artificially intelligent systems are posing an increasingly urgent question to the humans who live ...

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The AI robot companion called Moxie, which was designed to help teach social skills, is being discontinued after the company ...

On December 2, 2024, 166 countries voted in favor of Resolution 79/L.77 on lethal autonomous weapons systems, while 3 voted ...

As if endangered animals didn't have enough on their plate, boffins have now warned that rare wildlife could be completely ...

Lethal autonomous weapons - robots that can kill people without human intervention - aren't yet on our battlefields, but the technology is right there. As you can imagine, the killer robot issue ...

San Francisco's ruling Board of Supervisors has voted to let the city's police use robots that can kill. The measure permits police to deploy robots equipped with explosives in extreme circumstances.