{"431691":{"#nid":"431691","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Ron Arkin Discusses Why a Ban on Warfighting Robots is Premature","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EI\u2019ve been engaged in the debate over autonomous robotic military systems for almost 10 years. I am not averse to a ban, but I\u2019m convinced we should continue researching this technology for the time being. One reason is that I believe such systems might be capable of reducing civilian casualties and property damage when compared to the performance of human warfighters. Thus, it is a contention that\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/artificial-intelligence\/why-we-really-should-ban-autonomous-weapons\u0022\u003Ecalling for an outright ban on this technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is premature, as some groups already are doing.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"28124","created_gmt":"2015-08-05 13:01:09","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:38","author":"Tyler Sharp","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"\u00a0Linda Wills","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/artificial-intelligence\/autonomous-robotic-weapons-could-reduce-civilian-casualties\/","dateline":{"date":"2015-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2015-08-05T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"350021":{"id":"350021","type":"image","title":"Ron Arkin compressed","body":null,"created":"1449245702","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:15:02","changed":"1475895075","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:51:15","alt":"Ron Arkin compressed","file":{"fid":"201069","name":"ron-arkin_0.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ron-arkin_0_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ron-arkin_0_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":13343,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ron-arkin_0_0.jpg?itok=KTSxpKqM"}}},"media_ids":["350021"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"90941","name":"IEEE Spectrum"},{"id":"102441","name":"killer robots"},{"id":"137281","name":"Military Technology"},{"id":"14444","name":"ron arkin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}