Scientists Fear Killer Robots, SKYNET etc.

Scientists fear a revolt killer robots, reports The Sunday Times. Stop me if you’ve heard this before somewhere…

At the conference, held behind closed doors in Monterey Bay, California, leading researchers warned that mankind might lose control over computer-based systems that carry out a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting on the phone, and have already reached a level of indestructibility comparable with a cockroach.

Killer roombas! Coffee machines making dreadful coffee! Cars driving inefficiently! Oh and SKYNET, nukes and  Terminators.

The scientists who presented their findings at the International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence in Pasadena, California, last month fear that nightmare scenarios, which have until now been limited to science fiction films, such as the Terminator series, The Matrix, 2001: A Space Odyssey and Minority Report, could come true.