Your mission: Persuade the global military industrial complex to forgo a class of weapons that could transform warfare in the 21st century. A quixotic quest, you say? Noel Sharkey would disagree. In a provocative op-ed in The Guardian in 2007, the computer scientist at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom wrote that before long, robotic weapons would be delegated the authority to decide which human targets to kill. For many, the warning may have conjured fictional cyborgs, but for some artificial intelligence experts, it echoed a real fear of automated weapons relying on nothing but algorithms to tell the difference between combatants and civilians.
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机译：您的任务：说服全球军事工业联合体放弃一类可以在21世纪改变战争的武器。你说是一个古怪的追求？诺埃尔·沙基（Noel Sharkey）将不同意。英国谢菲尔德大学（University of Sheffield）的计算机科学家在2007年在《卫报》上发表的挑衅性评论中写道，不久之后，将授权机器人武器决定要杀死哪些人类目标。对于许多人来说，警告可能使虚构的机器人变了样，但是对于一些人工智能专家来说，它却回响了人们对自动武器仅依靠算法来分辨战斗人员与平民之间差异的真正恐惧。
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