Killer robots
However, not all robots are friendly and helpful.
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch warned about the development of "fully autonomous weapons ... so-called killer robots."
"Is that child stumbling towards the front line lost or a suicide bomber? That's a very difficult judgement and we need humans to make that call, not a machine," he said.
Such machines will completely change the face of warfare, Russell said, and leave the average life-span of a human combattant on the battlefield "about 10 seconds".
Roth also warned the assembled elite about the loss of privacy that could come with increased use of intelligent robots—a key theme at this year's Davos forum.
Waving his smartphone to the crowd, he said: "All the data in my phone is available to the government because I shared it."
"I've lost my privacy rights. Now what happens when that goes into your home? If you have a robot in your home, you lose the privacy even in your own home," Roth said.
"We don't want to get rid of the technology, but we do have to be careful ... for some of these technologies, you're much better off keeping the genie in the bottle."
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-artificial-intelligence-future-wows-davos.html#jCp
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