Editing Autonomous robot (section)

==Societal impact and issues==
As autonomous robots have grown in ability and technical levels, there has been increasing societal awareness and news coverage of the latest advances, and also some of the philosophical issues, economic effects, and societal impacts that arise from the roles and activities of autonomous robots.

Elon Musk, a prominent business executive and billionaire has warned for years of the possible hazards and pitfalls of autonomous robots; however, his own company is one of the most prominent companies that is trying to devise new advanced technologies in this area.<ref>[https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/24/elon-musk-warned-of-ai-apocalypsenow-hes-building-a-tesla-robot.html Elon Musk warned of a ‘Terminator’-like AI apocalypse — now he’s building a Tesla robot], Tue, Aug 24 2021, Brandon Gomez, cnbc.com</ref>

In 2021, a United Nations group of government experts, known as the ''Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons – Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems'', held a conference to highlight the ethical concerns which arise from the increasingly advanced technology for autonomous robots to wield weapons and to play a military role.<ref>[https://undocs.org/ccw/gge.1/2021/1 Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects], July 14, 2021, UN Official website at undocs.org.</ref>