Fully Autonomous Weapons

Killer Robots: UK Government Policy on Fully Autonomous Weapons

Strengthen commitment not to develop fully autonomous weapons and systems that could undertake attacks without meaningful human control. • Recognize that an ...

“Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems” resolution A/78/241 - UNODA

Fully Autonomous Weapons pose a grave threat to international peace and security and raise several humanitarian, legal and ethical concerns that have to be.

Autonomous Weapons Systems: Homepage

Slaughterbots, also called “autonomous weapons systems” or “killer robots”, are weapons systems that use artificial intelligence (AI) to identify, select, and ...

Key Elements of a Treaty on Fully Autonomous Weapons

Weapons systems that select and engage targets without meaningful human control—known as fully autonomous weapons, lethal autonomous weapons ...

Global Survey Highlights Continued Opposition to Fully Autonomous ...

These weapons systems would be capable of independently selecting targets and attacking those targets without human intervention. They are thus ...

Fact Sheet: Autonomous Weapons

There are varying levels of system autonomy depending on human involvement, but the full measure of an autonomous weapon system is its ability ...

Pentagon pushes A.I. research toward lethal autonomous weapons

Industry experts and Pentagon officials agree that the U.S. will within the next few years have fully autonomous lethal weapons ready to ...

First Committee Approves New Resolution on Lethal Autonomous ...

The resolution expresses concern about the possible negative consequences and impact of autonomous weapons systems on global security and ...

Autonomous Weapons Systems: Five key human rights issues for ...

These will make possible the development and deployment of fully autonomous weapons systems which can select, attack, kill and wound human ...

Applying arms-control frameworks to autonomous weapons

The first use of an autonomous weapon to kill is thought to have occurred in March of 2020 in Libya, but what actually happened in remains murky ...

Stop the “Stop the Killer Robot” Debate: Why We Need Artificial ...

A ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems will prevent the development of these technological means to reduce incidental civilian casualties.

Are Lethal Autonomous Weapons Inevitable? It Appears So

Semi-autonomous weapons like self-guided bombs, military drones or Israel's famed Iron Dome missile defence system have existed for decades. In ...

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned

The STM Kargu-2 is a flying quadcopter that weighs a mere 7 kg, is being mass-produced, is capable of fully autonomous targeting, can form swarms, remains fully ...

Stopping 'Killer Robots': Why Now Is the Time to Ban Autonomous ...

Autonomous weapons systems have drawn widespread media attention, particularly since last year's open letter signed by more than 3,000 artificial intelligence ( ...

A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons ...

Hence, a system whose selecting and attacking functions are autonomous, but which is directed by another agent(s) for all its other purpose of ...

Six in Ten (61%) Respondents Across 26 Countries Oppose the Use ...

Support for fully autonomous weapons is strongest in India (50%) and Israel (41%). The strongest opposition is in Turkey (78%), South Korea (74 ...

Killer Robots - Pax for Peace

Fully autonomous weapons (killer robots) are fundamentally unacceptable and should be prohibited. Other autonomous weapons should be regulated to ensure ...

A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons ...

In this report we focus on the definition of autonomous weapons systems (AWS). We provide a comparative analysis of existing official definitions of AWS.

Weapons powered by artificial intelligence need to be regulated

Among the most noteworthy new devices are Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (L.A.W.S.): machines engineered to identify, engage and destroy ...

The Perilous Coming Age of AI Warfare - Foreign Affairs

Last year, the Ukrainian drone company Saker claimed it had fielded a fully autonomous weapon, the Saker Scout, which uses artificial ...