The campaign wrote to the new UN Secretary - General António Guterres, who began his term on 1 January 2017, urging him to take a strong and unequivocal stance
against lethal autonomous weapons systems by endorsing the call for a ban.
Not exact matches
A
weapons system that identifies, selects and employs force
against targets without meaningful human control should be considered a
lethal autonomous weapons system.
An open letter authored by five Canadian experts in artificial intelligence research urges the Prime Minister to urgently address the challenge of
lethal autonomous weapons (often called «killer robots») and to take a leading position
against Autonomous Weapon
Systems on the international stage at the upcoming UN meetings in Geneva.
Cuba, Ecuador, and Pakistan reiterated their long - standing call for a ban on
lethal autonomous weapons systems, while Russia warned
against «attempts to impose preventive limitations or prohibitions on this type of prospective
weapons and relevant technologies.»