(Natural News) 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. Slaughterbots is the name that has been given to weapons that can select and apply force to targets without using […]

(Natural News) A United Nations (UN) report revealed that unmanned combat aerial vehicles and lethal autonomous weapons systems bombarded rebels in Libya last year. The drones, which can be operated manually, were self-guided during the encounter – using onboard cameras and machine learning to find and target enemies. According to the March report from the UN Security […]

(Natural News) Officials within the European Union (EU) on Wednesday, April 21, proposed legislation to limit the use of facial recognition technology and other “high-risk” applications of artificial intelligence (AI). The bill was proposed by the European Commission, the main executive body of the EU. The EU is attempting to lead the world in creating and […]

(Natural News) Chinese company Unitree Robotics developed a four-legged robot that looked like the robotic dog that engineering company Boston Dynamics debuted in 2015. Unitree introduced its machine at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas in January last year. Called “Aliengo,” the Chinese robot is controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) and has advanced depth perception. It is extremely durable and can travel 10 feet […]

(Natural News) Russia will soon integrate robotic killer tanks armed with a variety of weapons into its military forces. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the tanks on April 9 at the 766th Production and Technological Enterprise, the factory where the tanks were made, in Nakhabino near Moscow. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced on the same day: “The first […]

(Natural News) It may not be long before the world has to contend with armies of Terminator troops. We already know that China is developing biologically enhanced “super soldiers,” and now the French military has been given the go-ahead to create so-called “augmented soldiers” by the armed forces ministry’s ethical committee. France said it is […]

(Natural News) Even the most hardened, nature-loving, tree-hugging, environmentally conscious animal lover would draw the line at allowing cockroaches to roam free in their home. Quite frankly, cockroaches are super gross, and anybody who detects them in their environment would be quick to call out the exterminator to get rid of them. But there’s a […]

(Natural News) In the 2019 film “Angel Has Fallen” starring Morgan Freeman as the U.S. leader and Gerard Butler as his trusted aid, the bad guys stage a rather unorthodox attack against the president and his Secret Service security detail. As the characters played by Freeman and Butler fish in the middle of a small […]

(Natural News) Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have been working alongside auto manufacturing company BMW to develop an algorithm that tells robots how to predict human movement and how to respond accordingly. Factory workers are beginning to work in close proximity to robots. Researchers are trying to enhance the efficiency of robots […]

(Natural News) Richard Moyes, a founding member of the non-government organization Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (CSKR), warns that autonomous military robots may develop their own intelligence and turn against its human creators. In particular, Moyes says that advancing technologies are opening doors to opportunities (and risks) that even the smartest experts cannot predict. “A […]