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Activists urge killer robot ban ‘before it is too late’
 [DAWN] Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots "before it is too late", activists said on Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the talks ‐ the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) ‐ for moving too slowly. "Killer robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction," Rasha Abdul Rahim, When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... , said in a statement. "From artificially intelligent drones to automated guns that can choose their own targets, technological advances in weaponry are far outpacing international law," she said. "We are calling on states to take concrete steps to halt the spread of these dangerous weapons... before it is too late." Her comments came as a CCW group of governmental experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems began a week-long meeting in Geneva. Posted by: Fred 2018-08-29 |
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