According to the Japan Times, Angela Kane, the German UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs from 2012-2015 it may already be too late:
Scientists say the deployment of these ‘autonomous weapons’ would represent a dangerous new era in warfare and a real threat to humanity.
Stuart Russell, professor of computer science at University of California, Berkeley told the forum in Davos:
Around a thousand science and technology chiefs including Stephen Hawking, said in an open letter last July that the development of these weapons could be feasible within years.
They called for a ban warning that the world risked becoming embroiled in an artificial intelligence arms race and suggested the weapons could fall into the hands of violent extremists.
There are also questions about whether the machines would be able to follow the rules of war and if they could tell the difference between civilians and soldiers.
Alan Winfield, professor of electronic engineering at the University of the West of England, warned that the robots may be hard to predict: “When you put a robot in a chaotic environment, it behaves chaotically,” he said.
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