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"Killer Robots" to be Focus of New UN-Hosted Talks

posted by Snow on Tuesday August 28 2018, @10:23PM   
from the pew-pew-pew dept.

MrPlow writes:

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Inside the United Nations' effort to regulate autonomous killer robots

Amandeep Gill has a difficult job, though he won't admit it himself. As chair of the United Nations' Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meetings on lethal autonomous weapons, he has the task of shepherding 125 member states through discussions on the thorny technical and ethical issue of "killer robots" — military robots that could theoretically engage targets independently. It's a subject that has attracted a glaring media spotlight and pressure from NGOs like Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, which is backed by Tesla's Elon Musk and Alphabet's Mustafa Suleyman, to ban such machines outright.

[...] The CCW will meet for the third time for discussions on lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs), from August 27th through 31st, after which it will likely issue a report and decide upon continuing discussions next year. The Verge spoke to Gill about Hollywood depictions of dangerous machines, weapons that already exist or are in development, and a potential ban on killer robots.

Also at CBS.

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• Stop Resisting Stop Resisting (Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:44PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 28 2018, @11:44PM (#727558)

  We all know how this will turn out. In order to protect blue lives these robots will "arrest and/or subdue" any suspects, protesters, bystanders or journalists. Should any of them resist they will become an example for the others.

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• Re:Stop Resisting (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @08:26AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 29 2018, @08:26AM (#727720)

  Noh Gun Ri

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