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TEC174: Should autonomous weapons ever be developed? Dom Bettinelli, Fr. Joseph Sund, and Victor Lams discuss the morality and ethics and the Church’s response, and perhaps the inevitability of weapons that think for themselves.

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• Push to ban ‘killer robots’ gets a boost from the Vatican and the pope – Catholic Review
• Machine Gun Integrated into Robot Dog – YouTube
• Slaughterbots – YouTube
• Ukraine Unveils Mini “Terminator” Ground Robot Equipped With Machine Gun | ZeroHedge
• Terrorist Groups, Artificial Intelligence, and Killer Drones – War on the Rocks
• Google fires AI engineer Blake Lemoine, who claimed its LaMDA 2 AI is sentient – The Verge
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• Hasbro will put your face on a Power Ranger (or Black Panther or Spider-Man) for $60 – The Verge
• Chess robot breaks seven-year-old’s finger during tournament in Russia – The Verge

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