Zimbabwe said that it was joining like - minded delegations to support the call to preemptively
ban lethal autonomous weapon systems because it saw «merit and wisdom in doing what is right and necessary to safeguard this and future generations» from the weapons.
The letter goes further asking «Canada to announce its support for the call to
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems at the upcoming United Nations Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).
To this end, we ask Canada to announce its support for the call to
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems at the upcoming United Nations Conference on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).
The Boston - based Future of Life Institute, which funded the film, has created a new website to encourage more actions in support of the call to
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems.
It calls for Australia to announce its support for the call to
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems at the upcoming UN Conference on CCW, and to commit to working with other states to conclude a new international agreement that achieves this objective.
Nov. 2 (Ottawa) More than 200 Canadians working in the field of artificial intelligence, including AI pioneers Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, issued an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, demanding Canada to support the call to
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems and commit to working with other states to conclude a new international agreement that achieves this objective
On 2 November 2017, more than 120 members of the Australian AI research community wrote to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to ask Australia to endorse the call to
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems and commit to working with other states to conclude a new international agreement that achieves this objective.
Since 2014, the Holy See has supported the call to preemptively
ban lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Not exact matches
The survey found that 67 percent of its participants support a preemptive
ban on
lethal autonomous weapons systems.
When asked about an international
ban across different types of
lethal autonomous weapons for missions on land, air, and sea, 67 % of our participants indicated that all types of
lethal autonomous systems should be internationally
banned, while 14 % said that none of such
systems should be
banned.
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.
Asaro argues in favour of a
ban on
autonomous lethal weapons systems, based on a foundation of human rights and humanitarian principles that are not only moral, but legal.
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots calls for a pre-emptive and comprehensive
ban on the development, production, and use of fully
autonomous weapons, also known as
lethal autonomous weapons systems or killer robots.
Pakistan was the first country to call for a
ban on
lethal autonomous weapons systems and is probably the most active proponent of a preemptive
ban concluded at the CCW.
The CCW process on
lethal autonomous weapon systems could and should result in a new CCW protocol
banning these
weapons, but it should not take many years to do so.
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.»
Apr. 6: Pakistan's new Foreign Secretary, Tehmina Janjua, reaffirms the government's support for the goal of a preemptive
ban on
lethal autonomous weapons systems in a letter to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.
The 58 - page Keeping Control report by Daan Kayser provides an overview of the positions of European states on
lethal autonomous weapon systems, including on the call for a
ban and on how to ensure
weapons systems remain under meaningful human control.
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots urges all nations that have not yet done so to join the 19 countries that support the call for a
ban on
lethal autonomous weapons system and work towards that objective.