From 13 to 19 July 2018 in Stockholm (Sweden) is the international conference of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, dedicated to artificial intelligence. During the event, the non-profit organization Future of Life Institute drafted an agreement to ban the production of deadly algorithms. Among the people who signed the document were: DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis, businessman Elon Musk, programmer and founder of Skype, Jaan Tallinn. In total, the list includes 164 organizations and 2,410 people.

The document affirmed that weapons systems using artificial intelligence represent two dangers for humanity - moral and pragmatic. From a moral point of view, decisions about the end of human life "should not be delegated to machines". The pragmatic threat is that "lethal automatic weapons, capable of independently choosing and aiming at an object without human intervention, dangerously destabilize the situation for each country and individual".

A professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Max Tegmark, who signed the document, said the agreement is an indication of how leaders in the field of artificial intelligence "moved from words to action." According to him, it imposes a ban in the sphere in which politicians do not have power in the sphere of technology development. He believes that weapons equipped with algorithms are as disgusting as biological ones, so it must be strictly regulated.

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