Robots to Kill Humans to "End Suffering?"

Our "neurotic fear of suffering" could cause robots to kill us all out of "kindness," a tech executivehas warned. From the Daily Mail story:

Future generations could be exterminated by Terminator-style robots unless machines are taught the value of human life.

This is the stark warning made by Amsterdam-based engineer Nell Watson, who believes droids could kill humans out of both malice and kindness. Teaching machines to be kind is not enough, she says, as robots could decide that the greatest...