technological advances are spurring the development of autonomous weapons systems that operate without meaningful human control, delegating life-and-death decisions to machines. The machine rather than the human operator would determine where, when, or against what force is applied. January 3, 2024, https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/03/killer-robots-un-vote-should-spur-action-treaty Guterres Should Seek to Tackle Autonomous Weapons Systems (New York, January 3, 2023) – Countries…
Human Rights Watch has called on countries that approved a UN resolution on "killer robots" to promote negotiations on a new international treaty to ban and regulate these weapons.
An array of Christian and faith organizations have called for the rejection of weapons systems that select targets without meaningful human control using killer robots, saying they are unacceptable and need to be banned.