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US, UK stalling UN ban on Killer Robots
The US and UK are undermining the measures by the UN to control the use of “killer robots” in an attempt to safeguard their investments, experts say.
“A lot of money is going into development(of lethal autonomous weapons) and people will want a return on their investment,” said Christof Heyns, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in an interview...
UN meeting to host debate on Autonomous Army Robots
An upcoming expert-level meeting of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva is to host a debate on killer robots.
The discussion is to be held between Prof. Noel Sharkey, co-founder of the Campaign Against Killer Robots and chairman of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and Prof. Ronald Arkin from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a public research university...