Musk & Hawking sign letter warning against future AI arms race: are they too late?

On Tuesday, during the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Buenos Aires, Argentina, an open letter signed by 1000 leading AI and robotics researchers along with public figures such as Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, was released that recommended banning autonomous AI weapons. The researchers advised against such…