Watch out for AI-driven Lethal Autonomous Systems that make mistakes

A new paper on AI-driven LASs argues they can't always be right and that we'd better think hard about whether we should build them at all

Network World | Nov 22, 2014 4:37 PM PT

Robot overlords! Pah! The biggest military danger in the near future will be hunter-killer autonomous robots. No, not far-future Terminator-type 'droids but small, cheap bots that will be able to challenge you, figure out if you're us or them, and, if you're not, kill you. 

We've already seen such devices though they've not been cheap nor really smart. For example, 8 years ago Samsung Techwin announced the all weather SGR-A1, 5.56 mm robotic machine gun with an optional grenade launcher for $200,000

Much more here http://www.networkworld.com/article/2851102/security0/forget-your-robot-overlords-watch-out-for-lethal-autonomous-systems-that-make-mistakes.html