Sentences with phrase «autonomous weapons would»

As a result, fully autonomous weapons would not meet the requirements of the laws of war.

Existing mechanisms for legal accountability are ill suited and inadequate to address the unlawful harm that fully autonomous weapons would be likely to cause.

The use of fully autonomous weapons would create an accountability gap as there is no clarity on who would be legally responsible for a robot's actions: the commander, programmer, manufacturer, or robot itself?

The «various» views on the possibility that autonomous weapons would being able to comply with rules of international law and «different» views on the adequacy of existing law;

Human Rights Watch warned that fully autonomous weapons would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and -LSB-...]

Based on that long - standing precedent, a GGE on fully autonomous weapons would be open to all interested states regardless of whether they have joined the CCW's framework convention and its five protocols, as well as to NGO representatives.

Human Rights Watch warned that fully autonomous weapons would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians.

«Developing autonomous weapons would make the security situation on the Korean peninsula worse, not better,» he said.

For political decision makers, autonomous weapons would be even more problematic.

The letter states that autonomous weapons have been describes as «the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms» and argues it would only be a matter of time before they fall into the hands of terrorists, dictators and warlords who may use them for ethnic cleansing and to control their populace.

For the fourth consecutive year in a row, concerns over fully autonomous weapons have featured prominently at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.

Over the past year since the report was issued, much of the debate over fully autonomous weapons has focused on the weapons» potential role in armed conflict, raising questions over whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into account.

These and subsequent statements by the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs on fully autonomous weapons have helped explain the concerns and underscore the need for multilateral deliberations on the subject and new global standards.

According to the open letter, «autonomous weapons have been described as the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms.»

The call issued by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots for a pre-emptive ban on these fully autonomous weapons has become a central feature of the international debate.

In recent years, the benefits and dangers of fully autonomous weapons have been hotly debated by a relatively small community of specialists, including military personnel, scientists, roboticists, ethicists, philosophers, and lawyers.

Since the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots launched in April of this year, fully autonomous weapons have gone from an obscure, little known issue, to one that is commanding international attention.

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Fully autonomous weapons do not yet exist, and major powers, including the United States, have not made a decision to deploy them.

But as time has gone on, she's started to see fresh horror in fields with which she's had little direct interaction, like «Metalhead,» an episode about autonomous weapons gone awry.

It seems unlikely that military or political decision - makers would really want to introduce a fully autonomous weapon to the battlefield.

Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield, UK, who has criticised the use of autonomous weapons, fears that miniaturisation will lead to an escalation in use and pave the way for their global proliferation.

«We therefore publicly declare that we will boycott all collaborations with any part of KAIST until such time as the President of KAIST provides assurances, which we have sought but not received, that the Center will not develop autonomous weapons lacking meaningful human control.»

We therefore publicly declare that we will boycott all collaborations with any part of KAIST until such time as the President of KAIST provides assurances, which we have sought but not received, that the Center will not develop autonomous weapons lacking meaningful human control.

The researchers said they would not collaborate with the university or host visitors from KAIST over fears it sought to «accelerate the arms race to develop» autonomous weapons.

If Mr. Obnosov is claiming the US has autonomous missiles with capabilities that would take Russian weapon - makers years to develop, he's making a bold claim.

«I would like to reaffirm that KAIST does not have any intention to engage in development of lethal autonomous weapons systems and killer robots,» Shin said in a statement.

Erin is involved in the ongoing diplomatic efforts to prohibit autonomous weapons systems (killer robots) and has spoken on the topic in Canada and at the United Nations.

Previously, only a single company, Canada's Clearpath Robotics, had formally called for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons.

These are some of the questions we have been exploring in the domain of self - driving vehicles, care robots, as well as lethal autonomous weapons systems, or LAWS.

If we populate our military with autonomous weapons systems, our adversaries would adapt.

It has been reported that the goals of this Center are to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, has issued a statement endorsed by more than 270 engineers, computing and artificial intelligence experts, roboticists, and professionals from related disciplines that calls for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

More states have raised autonomous weapons concerns at the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security this year than in the past two years, according to a Campaign to Stop Killer Robots review of statements from the 2015 session, which concludes on 9 November.

The signatories of the boycott letter fear that autonomous weapons remove moral and ethical restraints that would allow terrorists and despots to unleash atrocities on innocent populations.

Almost all states that spoke on the matter have expressed support for more discussions on autonomous weapons in 2016 at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

The moral and ethical issues surrounding autonomous weapons systems have been a topic of conversation at the national and international level from the start and this should continue.

Mines Action Canada and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots have been busy talking about autonomous weapons this winter.

While Kane was the UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters has discussed measures that can be taken on fully autonomous weapons on several occasions, while the UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) is contributing substantively to increasing understanding with its project on the «weaponization of increasingly autonomous technologies.»

-- UN discusses lethal autonomous weapons Apr. 13 - 17, 2015 The Open Roboethics initiative has been leading surveys and polls on a number of different...

France said it has no plans for autonomous weapons that deploy fire, it relies entirely on humans for fire decisions.

Recently, autonomous weapon systems have been in the news in Canada.

In total, 30 states have spoken publicly on fully autonomous weapons since the Human Rights Council debate was held on 30 May 2013: Algeria, Austria, Argentina, Belarus, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States.

Yet despite these activities and the media interest, the government of Sweden has not yet provided its view on the calls for a ban or moratorium on fully autonomous weapons.

Italy's top political leadership has been briefed by Nobel Peace Laureate Jody Williams of the Nobel Women's Initiative and Italian non-governmental organizations on the need for the government to support the call for a ban on fully autonomous weapons and play an active role in international efforts to address the weapons.

The UK made a detailed intervention that included the statement that it «does not believe there would be any utility in a fully autonomous weapon system.»

By 23 October when the debate on conventional weapons concluded, at least 20 nations had expressed their views with almost all expressing clear support for continued deliberations on fully autonomous weapons at the Convention on Conventional Weapons in Geneva.

This 50 - page report outlines the organizations» concerns with fully autonomous weapons, which would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention, and calls for governments to preemptively ban these weapons.

Second, the majority of states, including my own, Canada, do not have national policies on autonomous weapons systems.

In the CCW's work on autonomous weapons systems, we have learned more about Article 36 reviews but it is clear that states need to be more transparent, systemic and rigorous in their weapons review processes.

South Africa, 26 October Informal discussions on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) have been taking place within the Certain Conventional Weapons Convention (CCW) for the last few years.