Episode 29 - "War Machine"

International calls to ban autonomous weapon systems have done little to slow the escalating arms race between nations to acquire weapons of the so called third revolution in warfare - or simply "killer robots." The intersection of AI, deep learning, and lethal weaponry presents a future of war unlike any the world has ever seen. In the crosshairs of this new frontier of violence we find moral accountability, the ethics of killing, and of course the comforting lullaby that we have any meaningful control over our world.

What will war become when all the warriors are replaced by weapons that "think" but do not feel? Listen in this week to find out.

• 5:10 Arms Race for LAWS
• 8:28 Autonomous Weapons: This Time It's Different
• 15:47 Calling for a Ban
• 28:46 Robot Dystopian Future #1
• 32:03 Is Technology Just a Tool?
• 39:30 Robot Dystopian Future #2
• 42:22 War Business and Following Orders
• 47:12 Robot Dystopian Future #3
• 55:46 Robot Overlords
• 58:31 Sitting on a Man
• 1:01:14 Culture that Outpaces Technology
• 1:03:27 Flaw of Averages
• 1:06:47 Robot Dystopian Future #4
• 1:12:17 Absurdity of War
• 1:16:35 What Can We Do?

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