[Ci4cg-announce] Fwd: Pledge against autonomous weapons - new FLI initiative

[Doug Schuler]

FYI. Autonomous weapons aren't good examples of CI4CG!

— Doug


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From: Lucas Perry <Lucas at futureoflife.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 11:25 AM
Subject: Pledge against autonomous weapons - new FLI initiative
To: Douglas Schuler <douglas at publicsphereproject.org>























*Hello,There has been significant progress, thanks to people like you, in
calling attention to the dangers of autonomous weapons. From the viral
Slaughterbots video
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26017>
to the Google employee letter protesting military contracting
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26018>
to the successful boycott of KAIST's (now aborted) autonomous weapons
effort
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26019>
to the ongoing negotiations at the United Nations
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26020>,
the belief is deepening and spreading that we must act now to avoid a
potentially devastating arms race in an unprecedented new type of weapon of
mass destruction.Taking a next step, FLI is launching an initiative calling
on companies, organizations, leaders, policymakers and others to pledge
that they will not participate in the development, production, or
deployment of lethal autonomous weapons.  This will send a powerful message
that these are weapons we can, and should, choose not to loose on the
world.  We’re writing to invite you to:a) Sign the pledge as an individual
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26021>!andb)
Sign the pledge on behalf of your organization
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26021>!
If you are in a leadership or managerial role at an organization that you
think may be willing to sign the pledge (either now or after some internal
discussion) please sign as an organization here
<http://futureoflifeinstitute.acemlnb.com/lt.php?s=6a5aa8cf50ed11f63d6ded1a2191eb76&i=158A307A65A26021>and
make sure to include an email address. We will follow up with you and/or
the organization.Will you join Elon Musk, Stuart Russell, Yoshua Bengio,
Meredith Whittaker, Ryan Gariepy, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Jaan Tallinn, Anca
Dragan, and many others in this pledge against lethal autonomous weapons?
Thanks again for your support! The Future of Life Institute Team*



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