When the Secretary General of the United Nations calls upon the international community to ban “killer robots,” that phrase is going to strike a resounding chord in the public imagination—especially when that public is already becoming wary of the current course of AI development for much more immediately tangible reasons, like increasingly steep electricity bills and the unconstrained spread of online deepfakes.
On Monday, during the first-ever Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, U.N. Secretary General António Guterres called the development of AI-powered weapons “morally repugnant,” and urged the U.N.’s 193 member states to unilaterally prohibit the technology from the battlefield.
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