The Guardian, a UK paper, published a story on July 27 (Samuel Gibbs) that Stephen Hawking, Steve Wozniak, and Tesla's Elon Musk along with 1,000 other AI & robotics experts (authored/signed?) an open letter that was presented at an International Conference on AI in Buenos Aires recently.
They warned that robotic killers that could pick targets and act w/o human control were years, not decades away:
http://www.theguardian.com/technolog...nomous-weapons
They said that this will be on the same level of change as gunpowder and the atomic bomb......
It was Einstein who wrote a similar letter to FDR that if the US did not develop the atomic bomb, the Nazis would.
(This is not meant to be a political thread)
I think this is seriously disconcerting. Definitely a great reason to loose myself in The Shop.