Leaders from Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic have issued a dire warning that nations around the world haven’t been doing enough to ban the development of autonomous weapons — so-called “killer robots.” The groups issued a joint report that calls for a complete ban on these systems before such weapons begin to make their way to military arsenals and it becomes too late to act. Other groups, including Amnesty International, joined in those urgent calls for a treaty to ban such weapons systems.
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Human Rights Groups Sound Alarm Over ‘Killer Robot’ Threat
Posted by: Peter Suciu November 20, 2018 11:44 AMLeaders from Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic have issued a dire warning that nations around the world haven’t been doing enough to ban the development of autonomous weapons — so-called “killer robots.” The groups issued a joint report that calls for a complete ban on these systems before such weapons begin to make their way to military arsenals and it becomes too late to act. Other groups, including Amnesty International, joined in those urgent calls for a treaty to ban such weapons systems.