Prof Noel Sharkey on Autonomous Robots: “we don’t want to sleepwalk into further technological disasters” #NIHRF
Northern Ireland-born Prof Noel Sharkey from University of Sheffield’s Centre for Robotics addressed a crowd of forty who had managed to battle through the disrupted Belfast traffic to St Mary’s University College this evening. (Older readers may remember him from BBC Two’s Robot Wars!) As part of the NI Human Rights Festival, he delivered a talk on From War to Surveillance: Human Rights and Autonomous Weapons Sharkey began by explaining the scale and scope of military drones which he described …
