An AI weapons race may create a world where everyone stays inside out of fear of being 'chased down by swarms of slaughterbots,' warns founding Skype engineer

• Jaan Tallinn helped build Skype and is the founder of the Future of Life Institute.
• He recently warned of the risks of an AI arms race, describing theoretical anonymous "slaughterbots."
• This year hundreds in the AI space signed an open letter calling for a pause on AI development.

"We might just be creating a world where it's no longer safe to be outside because you might be chased down by swarms of slaughterbots."

Those words of warning came from Jaan Tallinn, a founding engineer of Skype, in a recent video interview with Al Jazeera.