Disclaimer: The views expressed within this article are entirely the author’s own and are not attributable to Wessex Scene as a whole. Although the age of killer robots may seem far off, is it closer than we’d like. Can we afford to give machines the power to kill humans? UK Student/Young Pugwash (SYP) is holding its first Festival of Ethical Science, a month-long event targeted at STEM students. From the climate emergency to open-source research, the series of webinars tackle some of the ethical and political challenges faced by science and technology in the 21 st century. I attended the talk ‘Code for Coders – Killer Robots, Ethics and the Law’ which gave comforting reasons as to why fully autonomous weapons seem technically unfeasible, at least for now.