Photo: The US military have made developing AI robots a focus in recent years.
ABC News Online: Killer robots: Chinese university recruits talented 'patriotic' teens to help develop AI weapons
A Chinese university has enlisted teenagers straight from high school to work on a new experimental program aimed at developing artificial intelligence (AI) weapons.
The Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT) group of teenagers included 27 boys and four girls chosen to train as the world's youngest AI weapons scientists, according to the BIT website.
Those selected for the "experimental program for intelligent weapons systems" were all under the age of 18 and carefully chosen from a list of 5,000 candidates, the BIT website said.
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Update: China is said to be recruiting an elite group of 'patriotic' kids to help develop AI weapons (Business Insider).
WNU Editor: They are the future (children and AI that is).
