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Elon Musk says that A.I. ‘humanoid robots’ will eventually outnumber people: ‘It’s not even clear what an economy means at that point’

Prarthana Prakash

12 March 2023

Elon Musk is all about robots. He has likened his self-driving Tesla cars to “robots on wheels.”

Can police use robots to kill? San Francisco voted yes.

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04 December 2022

Six years ago, police in Dallas were forced to improvise when a sniper killed five officers and began an hours-long standoff.

Experts warn that UN failure to ban slaughterbots could spell the end of humanity

lakon

09 January 2022

Experts in military strategy and artificial intelligence are raising the alarm after a UN conference did not reach an agreement on banning the use of so-called slaughterbots at a recent meeting in Geneva.

The ‘world’s most advanced,’ realistic robot is here to terrify you

lakon

12 December 2021

A scarily realistic robot with lifelike facial features and expressions that can “develop interaction” with people has just been unveiled by Britain-based tech company Engineered Arts.

Xenobots: Scientists Build the First-Ever Living Robots That Can Reproduce

lakon

05 December 2021

An AI-designed “parent” organism (C shape; red) beside stem cells that have been compressed into a ball (“offspring”; green). Credit: Douglas Blackiston and Sam Kriegman

The Perils of Weaponisation of AI

Venkateswara Rao, The author is an alumnus of IIM, Ahmedabad and a retired senior corporate professional.

18 October 2020

Who would have thought we’d be seeing AI (Artificial Intelligence) robots on chat shows in 2018! We also saw Sophia, a robot created by Hanson robotics being granted a Saudi Arabian citizenship.

These “xenobots” are living machines designed by an evolutionary algorithm

technologyreview.com

28 March 2020

Meet the xenobots: Tiny living robots have been created using cells taken from frog embryos. Each so-called xenobot is less than a millimeter across, but one can propel itself through water using two stumpy limbs, while another has a kind of pouch that it could use to carry a small load.

Forget Killer Robots—Bias Is the Real AI Danger

technologyreview.com

18 December 2019

John Giannandrea, who leads AI at Google, is worried about intelligent systems learning human prejudices.

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