Slaughterbots

2017 film

FilmfilmQ47500700

Released: November 12, 2017
Genre: dystopian film
Original language: English

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Slaughterbots is a 2017 arms-control advocacy video presenting a dramatized near-future scenario where swarms of inexpensive microdrones use artificial intelligence and facial recognition software to assassinate political opponents based on preprogrammed criteria. It was released by the Future of Life Institute and Stuart Russell, a professor of computer science at Berkeley. On YouTube, the video quickly went viral, garnering over two million views and was screened at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meeting in Geneva the same month.

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Title: Slaughterbots
Website: autonomousweapons.org/slaughterbots
Main subject: lethal autonomous weapon
Narrator: Stuart J. Russell
Publisher: Campaign to Stop Killer Robots
Followed by: Slaughterbots - if human: kill()

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