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Program: Should robots decide who lives and who dies?

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Intelligent machines can perform tasks usually done by humans but should they make life and death decisions?

Lethal autonomous weapons will be deployed on the battlefields of the future unless we agree to ban them.

AI specialist Toby Walsh believes that humans, not robots, should be responsible for moral decisions.

Recorded 11 December 2016 University of New South Wales and first broadcast 3 May 2017

Speaker

Toby Walsh Professor of Artificial Intelligence University of New South Wales

Information Technology Industry, Unrest, Conflict and War, Ethics
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