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——– Forwarded Message ——– Subject: Re: Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2018 14:10:11 +0200 From: Gerhard Lakemeyer <gerhard@kbsg.rwth-aachen.de> To: euraisocieties@eurai.org

Dear EurAI Society,
I am forwarding a message by Ariel Conn from the Future of Life Institute asking for support of the lethal autonomous weapons pledge (see below). Please, distribute this message to your members and consider signing also as a society, as the Italian Association has done already.
Best regards, Gerhard Lakemeyer
——– Forwarded Message ——– Subject: Invitation Resent-From: lakemeyer@informatik.rwth-aachen.de Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 22:43:16 -0600 From: Ariel Conn <ariel@futureoflife.org> To: gerhard@informatik.rwth-aachen.de CC: Max Tegmark <tegmark@mit.edu>, Anthony Aguirre <anthony@futureoflife.org>

Dear Gerhard, I’m writing to invite the European Association for Artificial Intelligence to join Google DeepMind, the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, University College London and others as signatories of the lethal autonomous weapons pledge <futureoflife.org/lethal-autonomous-weapons-pledge>, whose key sentence is /”we will neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade, or use of lethal autonomous weapons”. /It will be terrific if you decide to join, because this will help increase the chances that the AI will continue to benefit society overall and not trigger a devastating new arms race.
If there’s anything we can do to help support discussions involved in this decision, please let me know. In the meantime, and perhaps to get the conversation started, it would be wonderful if you could pass the pledge on to your members to see if they might be interested in signing as individuals.
The pledge will be announced at an IJCAI/ECAI <www.ijcai-18.org/> press conference, and all organizations joining the pledge before July 16 will be featured in the “Hall of Fame” section. Again, lethal autonomous weapons are narrowly defined as AI-powered weapons that can decide to target and kill somebody without a human in the loop. Note that this definition does /not/ include currently deployed drones where humans make these decisions, and that the policy of many countries, including the U.S. and the U.K., requires a human in the loop. Also note that signing the pledge does /not/ require abstaining from defense work/funding more generally.
You can read and sign the pledge here <futureoflife.org/lethal-autonomous-weapons-pledge>, where you’ll also find the current signatories. Can we count you in?
Fingers x’ed, Ariel
Ariel Conn Director of Media and Outreach Future of Life Institute futureoflife.org <futureoflife.org> 415.640.1780