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The Latest News on: Autonomous weapons

• April 9, 2016 - “it will only be a matter of time” before AI technology reaches a point where it can deploy autonomous weapons capable of “assassinations, destabilizing nations, subduing populations and selectively killing a particular ethnic group.” This isn't your ...
• April 7, 2016 - The Campaign also demands a pre-emptive ban on lethal autonomous weapons, according to its website. Wareham is a co-laureate of the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize and global coordinator of the Campaign. She began the presentation with a brief history of the ...
• April 7, 2016 - For those new to these terms, lethal autonomous weapons are considered weapons that can “select and engage” targets without the intervention of a human operator. Unlike “drones” that are piloted by human beings, and where human operators identify and ...
• April 7, 2016 - In April 2016, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will hold a week-long meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) in Geneva. Previous meetings were held in 2014 and 2015 to discuss the legality of LAWS under the law ...
• March 21, 2016 - Allowing autonomous weapons to call the shots in combat zones eases the burden for human soldiers. But it also poses a threat to our safety and security, experts have warned. At a recent meeting, researchers said they were concerned these war machines ...
• March 21, 2016 - While no nation has actually deployed autonomous weapons, several nations, including the United States, have employed the use of unmanned vehicles into combat situations. The U.S. has utilized drones – or Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVS) – not only ...
• March 20, 2016 - Editor's Note: Autonomous weapons systems are often vilified as “killer robots” that will slay thousands without compunction – arguments that the systems' proponents often dismiss with a wave of their hands. Adam Saxton, a research intern at the Center ...
• March 4, 2016 - There's no shortage of warnings against autonomous weapons development from academics and business leaders. Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School last year released a report that strongly discouraged their development. One of their biggest ...
• February 28, 2016 - A new report written by a former Pentagon official who helped establish United States policy on autonomous weapons argues that such weapons could be uncontrollable in real-world environments where they are subject to design failure as well as hacking, ...
• February 1, 2016 - Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, Pakistan, and the Vatican—only these five states, out of the 87 that sent representatives to a 2014 UN conference on lethal autonomous weapons, submitted statements urging that autonomous weapons systems be banned. Meanwhile ...