video Watch military swarm drones lock on and surround a target Andrea James

DRONES StratoEnergetics introduces new Slaughterbot autonomous weapon Andrea James

better this way Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its "General Purpose Robots" Andrew Yi

war UN wants to ban killer robots but US won't comply Thom Dunn

Business Trump signs 'American AI Initiative' executive order to prioritize federal funding for artificial intelligence research Xeni Jardin

security Internet of Battle Things: a militarized IoT where "cognitive bandwidth constraints" require "autonomous cyber agents" Cory Doctorow

class war Mexican cities secede to escape corruption and cartels, forming corporate dystopias, precarious utopian projects, and Mad Maxish militia towns Cory Doctorow

security Why are hackers so political? Cory Doctorow

DRONES Sobering overview of the future of autonomous weaponry Andrea James

politics Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking call for ban on "autonomous weapons" Xeni Jardin

fiction The Man Who Sold The Moon Cory Doctorow