Noel Sharkey

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A Russian T-14 Armata main battle tank. “Military advisers tell me it looks at least 10 years ahead of any other tank on the planet. It can be remote controlled at the moment, but they’re rushing to make it fully autonomous so it can go out on its own.” Photograph: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images
'Killer robots' are not science fiction - they're here

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is not looking to prevent the rise of Robocop. It has no plans to crush the (convincing yet CGI) robot from Bosstow(...)

Remotely controlled robots: How will life change as AIs take over human labour? Photograph: Reuters/Issei Kato/File Photo
Holographs and ‘warm technology’: considering the future of AI

I was in Weimar last week for the Goethe Institut’s second biannual Kultursumposium, a global gathering of 300 speakers and participants primed to dis(...)

A file image of a demining robot in France. File photograph: Jacques Demarthon/AFP/Getty Images
New UN agency set to monitor threats from AI and robotics

The United Nations is to open a new office in the Netherlands to monitor leading-edge trends in the development of robotics and artificial intelligenc(...)