People watch too many movies.

Speaking for myself. I am gratified that a number of the people, programmers and technicians and other disciplines are publicly recognizing and opposing the militarization of AI, drones and automated systems.

These efforts to weaponize robots is political cowardice. Putting forward machines to take the blame for human psychosis.

If you ain't got the guts to admit responsibility for evil decisions? Than don't come whining to me when vengeance comes hunting your sorry ass!

My hope is that a California based company does not lead the US in military technology. But, if we're going to hope to counter the 25% of R&D China is investing in AI, we better hurry.

Interesting way to try to end-around the ethical point that a human needs to approve an order to kill. Reduce it to a yes/no decision then take that decision out of the hands of humans. If legitimate and ethical military organizations don't, illegitimate and unethical ones will.

My hope is that a California based company does not lead the US in military technology. But, if we're going to hope to counter the 25% of R&D China is investing in AI, we better hurry.

...or people could put a bit more effort into not having wars.

Anyway, Google ain't so much further than the rest on the IA / machine learning frontier, so if they don't it, someone else will.