Sentences with phrase «ban weapon technology»

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The report is replete with examples of the social controversies involving science and technology at that time - the biological and environmental effects of nuclear weapons testing, DDT and other dioxins, the use of defoliants and herbicides by the U.S. military in Vietnam, the safety of nuclear power plants, the ban on fetal research, a moratorium on recombinant DNA research, the need for human subject protections and informed consent in genetics research, the misuse of psychology as a tool for torture, the implications of national security controls on science; misconduct in science, and the role of and protections for whistleblowers - many of which continue to resonate in the science and society relationship of today.

This new NGO's 31 - pp report on artificial intelligence technologies includes a section on the military uses of AI and a UK survey that shows 50 percent of those polled support a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

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.»

But research and development activities should be banned if they are directed at technology that can only be used for fully autonomous weapons or that is explicitly intended for use in such systems.

Mines Action Canada has created an online petition to Keep Killer Robots Fiction, which calls on the Government of Canada to immediately prohibit the development and deployment of fully autonomous weapons in Canada and to support efforts to create a pre-emptive global ban on the technology.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a new edition of its quarterly journal International Review of the Red Cross, focused on new technologies and warfare and featuring articles by several members of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots: Dr. Peter Asaro of ICRAC on banning autonomous weapons systems, Prof. Noel Sharkey of ICRAC on autonomous robot warfare, and Richard Moyes and Thomas Nash of Article 36 on the role of civil society in the development of standards on new weapons.

Physicist Dr. Mark Avrum Gubrud and philosopher of technology Dr. Peter Asaro from campaign co-founder the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) both presented to the Board's previous meeting in New York in early March 2014, while Brehm addressed the Board in June 2013 to introduce the newly - launched campaign and its call for a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

In the RoboCop remake, legislation named after the main opponent of killer robots, Senator Huburt Dreyfus (Zach Grenier), preemptively bans the use of fully autonomous weapons in the United States, but the technology does not appear to be prohibited internationally.

In a presentation on 4 July on behalf of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, Maya Brehm of Article 36 welcomed the Board's continued interest in the disarmament and security implications of emerging technologies and affirmed the campaign's objective of a comprehensive and pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Examples: a no - exceptions ban on military - style weapons and high - capacity magazines; universal, expanded background checks; limits on monthly purchases; technology that allows only owners to fire guns.