peter singer

I have always been interested in the study of war and the role of technology in armed conflicts. In fact, it was while studying the modern connections between technology and war for my MA Thesis that I got interested into the singularity and its implications. Eventually, I finished my thesis titled Hacking Destiny: Critical Security At The Intersection Of Machine And Human Intelligence, an abbreviated version of which ended up as a 5-part series of blog articles titled Dawn of the Kill-Bots (see Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5). In the above series I argued that despite the high media coverage of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan what we are (not) witnessing is the rise of armed military robots capable of killing humans. I went on to claim that within the history of the human [...]