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Killer robots and the fetish of automation

For far too long, two specters have been haunting the world of artificial intelligence and warfare, and they both featured in the same movie. The first is Skynet — the specter of general artificial ...
The famous scientist has been joined by hundreds of sympathetic signatories from outside the AI industry — including Tesla CEO Elon Musk According to various reports more than a thousand ...
Experimental AI-enabled FPV attack drones were disappointing in 2024, but the second generation are far more capable and are ...
In September 2025, a story about an artificial-intelligence robot that apparently was the first of its kind to experience post-traumatic stress disorder spread across social media. According to the ...
Since 2024, a video has circulated online purportedly showing surveillance footage of a small robot, named Erbai, convincing 12 other humanoid robots at a robotics showroom in China to leave their ...