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Why we need to regulate non-state use of arms
It's time for states to agree on anti-proliferation measures so that non-state actors cannot create lethal autonomous weapons by repurposing civilian products.
Stuart Russell
1982, BA in Physics, Oxford; 1986, PhD in Computer Science, Stanford. Since 1986, Professor, University of California, Berkeley. Fellow, present or former: AAAS; ACM; AAAI; Chaires Blaise Pascal. Research interests: all areas of artificial intelligence; nuclear treaty verification; intensive care medicine; long-term future of human and machine intelligence.
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