'Killer robots' pose risks and advantages for military use
'Killer robots' pose risks and advantages for military use Human rights groups to push for ban on lethal autonomous weapons at UN meeting next week By Kathleen Harris, CBC News Posted: Apr 09, 2015 7:18 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 10, 2015 2:50 PM ET The kind of artificially intelligent soldier-robot from the futuristic movie The Terminator may be a long way off, but policy analysts are grappling now with limits on the military use of robots. (Herwig Prammer/Reuters) As Canada prepares to take part in international talks on so-called "killer robots" next week, documents obtained by CBC News show defence officials see risks but also military advantages to deploying deadly autonomous weapons. Records released under the Access to Information Act show officials at Foreign Affairs and National Defence are keeping an open mind as they carve out a Canadian position on the controversial systems — in spite of growing calls for a pre-emptive global ban. Lethal autonomous we...