The AI Arms Race In 2019

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking’s activism has failed

Image depicts activists from the “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots” group, protesting outside the United Nations in Geneva

Killer robots have arrived. Admittedly, these ‘lethal autonomous weapons’ are still a long way from superintelligence — AI in 2019 is closer to WALL-E than The Terminator. All the same, the application of artificial intelligence to military technology has been veritably explosive over the last five years; driven especially by intensive…