Franck Negro

In an open letter published on July 27, 2015, more than a thousand AI and robotics researchers, as well as industry figures, called for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. Among the notable signatories were the head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk; the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking; Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak; the founder of DeepMind, Demis Hassabis; and the linguist Noam Chomsky. The authors propose a minimal definition of lethal autonomous weapons, distinguishing them fr