{"id":38126,"date":"2019-03-31T00:22:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38126"},"modified":"2019-03-31T00:22:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T00:22:12","slug":"can-we-stop-killer-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38126","title":{"rendered":"Can we stop killer robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"73.4434782609\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/features\/worried-killer-robots-180409061422106.html\">Killer robots<\/a> may sound like the name of a science fiction film, but they could be becoming a reality &#8211; and soon.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists say artificial intelligence has developed so quickly that we could soon see weapons that can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/03\/killer-robots-scientists-concerned-ethics-military-ai-190329140107653.html\">choose a target and kill<\/a> without being controlled by a human.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/organisations\/un.html\">United Nations<\/a> has held five days of talks in Geneva, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/switzerland.html\">Switzerland<\/a> on banning what are known as lethal autonomous weapons.<\/p>\n<p>But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a>, Russia, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a> and the United Kingdom are against any restrictions, saying these developments could make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/war.html\">war<\/a> safer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>How likely are killer robots? And are we prepared for them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter: Divya Gopalan<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Will Crosthwait &#8211; cofounder of KENSAI, an artificial analysis consultancy company<\/p>\n<p>Mariarosaria Taddeo &#8211; research fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute<\/p>\n<p>Toby Cadman &#8211; internet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/categories\/human_rights.html\">human rights<\/a> lawyer and barrister at Guernica37 International Justice Chambers<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer robots may sound like the name of a science fiction film, but they could be becoming a reality &#8211; and soon. Scientists say artificial intelligence has developed so quickly that we could soon see weapons that can choose a target and kill without being controlled by a human.\u00a0 The United Nations has held five&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}