Autonomous weapons select
Stuart Russell Berkeley, Professor of Computer Science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and
Nils J. Nilsson, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University, Kumagai Professor of Engineering, Emeritus, past president of AAAI
Barbara J. Grosz Harvard University, Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences, former president AAAI, former chair of IJCAI Board of Trustees
Tom Mitchell CMU, past president of AAAI, Fredkin University Professor and Head of the Machine Learning Department
Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Research, Managing director, Microsoft Research, past president of AAAI, co-chair of AAAI Presidential Panel on Long-term AI Futures, member of ACM, IEEE CIS
Martha E. Pollack University of Michigan, Provost, Professor of Computer Science & Professor of Information, past president of AAAI, Fellow of AAAS, ACM & AAAI
Henry Kautz, University of Rochester, Professor of Computer Science, past president of AAAI, member of ACM
Demis Hassabis, Google DeepMind, CEO
Yann LeCun, New York University & Facebook AI Research, Professor of Computer Science & Director of AI Research
Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for
Peter Norvig, Google, Research Director, member of AAAI, ACM
Geoffrey Hinton University of Toronto and
Hans Brattberg, IT professional
Julie-Anne Herridge, Self Employed
Andre Mikhail Obierez, Fat Prophets and University of
Many arguments have been made for and against autonomous weapons, for example that replacing human soldiers by machines is good by reducing casualties for the owner but bad by thereby lowering the threshold for going to battle. The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting. If any major military power pushes ahead with AI weapon development, a global arms race is virtually inevitable,
Allen Pestaluky, Game Developer
Steven, Ackerson, Sales Rep
Tina Vogel
Jesse Bender
Florian Uhlemann, Aerial Entrepreneur
Nicholas wendt, IT Admin
Thomas Mather, MaxMind, CEO
SWAPNEEL Deshpande, Graduate Student
Nikhil, Software engineer
Liam Brown, Computer Science Student
Gillian McAllister, Anam Cara Community for Enlightened Living, Minister and
In summary, we believe that AI has great potential to benefit humanity
Lauren Kiakona