Take a stand on AI weapons
Nature, vol. 521, 2015, pp. 415–6
Abstract
The efforts in artificial intelligence (AI) concentrated on game playing, theorem proving, and puzzle-solving. Most of the systems were built to demonstrate the technical feasibility of a computer program for a specific intelligent task, that is, a task that required intelligence when performed by a human being. From the attempts to match the aspects of human thinking with computer programs the field of AI emerged. AI is the sub-discipline of computer science, which aims to improve and make the understanding of intelligent behavior more precise, and to improve the performance of computers in modeling such behavior. AI workers write the programs that exhibit intelligent and human behavior. Some of these programs are written to express, test, and further develop the theories of human behavior. These computational models of cognitive and perceptual aspects of intelligent behavior serve a scientific goal. Each program can be considered as a dynamic or procedural expression of a theory.
