Elon Musk junto a 116 expertos piden a la ONU evitar a los robots asesinos

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El multimillonario dueño de Tesla Elon Musk lidera la batalla para evitar que los robots inteligentes y la inteligencia artificial se use con fines militares enviándole una carta a la ONU para impedirlo. Vía Teac Beat te compartimos las razones:

Quieren evitar que los robots se conviertan en la tercera revolución de la guerra

Elon Musk ha advertido en numerosas ocasiones el peligro que entraña la inteligencia artificial, atreviéndose a afirmar que la IA supone un mayor riesgo que Corea del Norte, y parece que sus declaraciones no han pasado desapercibidas.
Un grupo de 116 expertos en inteligencia artificial han firmado una carta abierta a la ONU pidiendo que se prohiban los ‘robots asesinos’ para evitar que se conviertan en la tercera revolución de la guerra. Alegan que deberían incluirse en la lista de armas “moralmente incorrectas”, junto a las láser cegadoras y nucleares.

A la cabeza del movimiento están Elon Musk, el CEO de Tesla, y Mustafa Suleyman, cofundador de Google Deepmind.

En diciembre del año anterior la ONU votó para iniciar debates oficiales sobre el futuro de las armas autónomas, incluyendo drones, tanques y ametralladoras autónomas. De momento 19 de los 123 países miembros han pedido que se prohiban las armas letales autónomas.

Recientemente hubo un debate entre Musk y Zuckerberg al respecto y es tiempo de pensar seriamente estos tiempos en que los neuromantes nos han alcanzado :S

A continuación te compartimos el texto de la carta abierta:

Leaders of AI/robotics companies, including Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, call on UN to ban autonomous weapons. https://t.co/l1tEsrpGa0

— Future of Life Institute (@FLI_org) August 21, 2017

An Open Letter to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

As companies building the technologies in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics that may be repurposed to develop autonomous weapons, we feel especially responsible in raising this alarm. We warmly welcome the decision of the UN’s Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) to establish a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. Many of our researchers and engineers are eager to offer technical advice to your deliberations.

We commend the appointment of Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India as chair of the GGE. We entreat the High Contracting Parties participating in the GGE to work hard at finding means to prevent an arms race in these weapons, to protect civilians from their misuse, and to avoid the destabilizing effects of these technologies. We regret that the GGE’s first meeting, which was due to start today (August 21, 2017), has been cancelled due to a small number of states failing to pay their financial contributions to the UN. We urge the High Contracting Parties therefore to double their efforts at the first meeting of the GGE now planned for November.

Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare. Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend. These can be weapons of terror, weapons that despots and terrorists use against innocent populations, and weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways. We do not have long to act. Once this Pandora’s box is opened, it will be hard to close. We therefore implore the High Contracting Parties to find a way to protect us all from these dangers.

Foto: Ciry2 “Bad robot” (CC)