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Ethics Training For Deadly Drones

A new program seeks to develop ethics for the future's autonomous weapons

Ethics-bot? :  USAF
As unmanned drones become a larger part of how America makes war, fully autonomous fighting robots seem less a possibility than an eventuality. But how do we ensure that these future autonomous weapons conform to the ethics we would expect from a human combatant?

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