james clayton reports from silicon valley on the dawning reality that al researchers say we need to startg about today. the nuclear bomb totally transformed warfare. there are those that now say that we're on the cusp of something similar. it is a fast track to... i think "dystopia" is the right word for it. the nation is still recovering from yesterday's incident, which officials are saying is some kind of automated attack, which killed 11 us senators at the capitol building. autonomous weapons combine a confluence of different technologies — drones, facial recognition, artificial intelligence and big data — to create a sort of superweapon that not only detects and destroys, but can make that decision itself, and can be owned not just by states, but potentially by organisations, terrorist groups, anyone. this is the kind of dystopian reality that is being painted by critics — assassinations, private armies of bots, computers deciding whether humans live or die. these types of weapons that could easily be deployed and moved throughout different environments, like a swarm, the sort of embo

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that was james clayton and i have been speaking to professor stuart russell, whose bbc reith lectureout the dangers of ai—controlled weaponry. the letter raised the possibility of children playing with toy guns, being accidentally targeted by killer robots. he was involved in the original slaughterbots short film from 2017, which in itself was shockingly realistic. sound of drones. applause. did you see that? before it was premiered publicly i showed it to some of my ai colleagues and when they are watching the ceo of the arms company demonstrating the capabilities of this new technology and the kind of uses you can put it to, they thought this was a documentary. they didn't think this was fictional at all. your kids probably have one of these, right? when it premiered in geneva, actually, at the negotiations on autonomous weapons, the russian ambassador sort of sneered at this and said, "why are we even discussing this? "this is science—fiction. "it won't be possible for even 25—30 years." three weeks after we premiered the movie, turkish arms company stm actually announced a weapon

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james clayton looks at recent breakthroughs in dna technology which help to solve murders.s film contains scenes which some viewers may find upsetting. human remains, possibly a female, found lying near an unoccupied house. badly decomposed. hands and wrists still bound together. 30 years ago, a young woman's body was discovered in the american midwest. nobody knew who she was. it's america's silent, mass disaster, that there are so many people without names. she became known as �*grace doe�* — one of an estimated 250,000 unsolved murders in the us. i was going to keep looking. i did not care what it took, what i had to do. now, dna from genealogy websites is revolutionising cold case murder investigations like grace's, but at what cost? we have a multibillion—dollar industry unearthing the secrets of our genes. you have an absolute right to privacy but, at the same token, we have a right to not get murdered and raped. so who was grace and can america's dna detectives find out who killed her? i'm here in the middle of the us to follow a case that has stumped the police for

james clayton met the investors who made a fortune trading from their bedrooms, the tech supremos whoe watching on astonished and the hedge fund giants who are now nursing their losses. there's this narrative that this was a david and goliath story. it was all of these hedge funds, like yours, against the people — and the people won. i'll put it this way. if a five—year—old walked into this room right now, i could probably kick his ass. if 1,000 five—year—olds walked in here, they could probably take me down. just being honest about it. is that a david versus goliath story? uh, you know — no! something happened this january that no—one expected. it was a little bit like an internet revolution. we were team human, team normal, regular guy. it's united capitalists... it's like this focal point, a paradigm shift for everything that's gone on for the last few hundred years on wall street. ..socialists. .. if there was a smaller chance that i could have a direct impact on ruining some billionaire's life, i wanted in on it. ..and youtubers. so how much did you make? $40,000-ish? the idea th

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that was james clayton and i've been speaking to professor stuart russell, whose bbc reith lecture this robots. he was involved in the original slaughterbots short film from 2017, which, in itself, was shockingly realistic. sound of drones applause did you see that? before it was premiered publicly, i showed it to some of my ai colleagues. when they're watching the ceo of the arms company demonstrating the capabilities of this new technology and the kind of uses that you could put it to, they thought this was a documentary. they didn't think this was fictional at all. your kids probably have one of these, right? when it premiered in geneva, actually, at the negotiations on autonomous weapons, the russian ambassador sort of sneered at this and said, "why are we even discussing this? "this is science fiction. "it won't be possible for even 25 or 30 years." three weeks after we premiered the movie, turkish arms company stm actually announced a weapon and they advertised capabilities for autonomous hits on humans, face recognition, human tracking, all of the things that the ceo talks about.

clayton road as you're heading across towards the peninsula. no delays there long one. oh, one under 14 minutes and we'll leave you with the richmond center fell bridge a little under 9 darya jamesg today, which is california general rob bonta announcing an update because of the recent retail stuff that we've seen in the bay area. this comes after what we had another smash-and-grab this time in san jose proffers camila barco in the newsroom for us this morning with more on what happened there. camila. >> yeah, good morning, guys. so the state attorney general is going to be in san mateo county today. he's expected to make an announcement on a major organized retail theft case. now, as you guys said, this comes on the heels of several smash-and-grabs across the bay area less than 24 hours ago, thieves got away with several pieces of jewelry in san jose. take a look at this map. this happened at the eastridge mall just before 03:00pm yesterday for people wearing masks rushed inside the quick service jewelry design store and they began to smash the display cases with hammers that these ran away with the stolen jewelry before police arrived. but another group of crooks didn't leave