Activists, UN put 'killer robots' in the crosshairs
Monday, April 29, 2013 - 19:30
in Earth & Climate
Nearly every fighting ship in the U.S. Navy carries a Phalanx defense system, a computerized Gatling gun set on a six-ton mount that uses radar to spot targets flying out of the sky, or cruising across the ocean's surface. Once it "evaluates, tracks, engages and performs a kill assessment," a human gives the order to rattle off 4,500 rounds per minute. This sort of "supervised" automation is not o...