DeepMind Founders and Other AI Leaders Pledge to Not Develop Lethal Weapon Systems

A few days ago, London-based developer DeepMind (an Alphabet company) and thousands of other tech leaders in artificial intelligence (AI) signed a pledge vowing to never develop any “lethal autonomous weapon.” The group, which included Elon Musk, Skype founder Jaan Tallinn, and AI researchers Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, and Jürgen Schmidhuber, wrote in their letter that “We […]