Sentences with phrase «issue of autonomous weapons systems»

The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns, is due to present his latest report (A - HRC -26-36) to the the Human Rights Council on 12 June recommending that the body «remain seized» with the issue of autonomous weapons systems and «make its voice heard as the international debate unfolds.»

This letter has been released one week before the international community meets under the auspices of the CCW to discuss the issue of autonomous weapons systems.

Not exact matches

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.

In February 2016, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association issued a report recommending that «autonomous weapons systems that require no meaningful human control should be prohibited.»

In this regard, NAM States Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) welcome the informal meeting of CCW experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems held in Geneva from 13 - 17 April 2015 and support continued deliberations on this issue in the CCW on the basis of an agreed mandate.

The ICRC welcomed the increased attention paid to autonomous weapons systems with recent discussions of the technological capabilities, military intent, and legal and ethical issues they raise.

Germany, 9 October Let me address an emerging issue of great importance: Lethal autonomous weapons systems.

It is also the forum in which a coalition of non-governmental organizations, called the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, brought up the issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).

Japan, 26 October Japan recognizes the growing interest in the international community regarding the issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems.

My delegation considers that the four - day meeting of experts convened by States party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) in Geneva in May, provided an important opportunity to explore the fundamental legal, ethical and societal issues raised by one such possible advancement, lethal autonomous weapon systems.

Ireland supported the November 2013 agreement on a mandate at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to discuss fully autonomous weapons, emphasizing the need for «examination of this issue before such systems are deployed.»

Under «frontier issues,» the UN Secretary General's High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Ms. Izumi Nakamitsu, remarked that: «Rapid advances in the civilian and military application of artificial intelligence should continue to give impetus for formal deliberations on lethal autonomous weapon systems within the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.»

The fact that CCW States Parties are dealing with the issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems, as proposed by France in 2013, is a significant development with regard to the Convention.

In January 2017, several members of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots attended a retreat by artificial intelligence leaders at Asilomar in Monterey, California in January 2017, which issued a set of «principles» including a call to retain human control of systems with artificial intelligence and affirms the urgent need to avoiding an arms race in lethal autonomous weapons systems.

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

We wish to cite in particular the important work of UNIDIR in disarmament education, especially on emerging security issues relating to autonomous weapons systems and cybersecurity.»

Germany (2 October)-- «I would also like to draw on an emerging issue of great importance: Lethal autonomous weapons systems.

... It also applies to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which has been bolstered by the positive outcome of the latest Review Conference, including on the prospective issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems and on improvised explosive devices.

Both the Shaking the Foundation: The Human Rights Implications of Killer Robots report issued in May by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic and a June report by the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Professor Christof Heyns, find that autonomous weapons systems pose far - reaching potential implications to human rights, specifically the rights to life and dignity.

Pakistan (10 October)-- «Pakistan also supports the commencement of negotiations in the CD on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space and Negative Security Assurances, as well as on contemporary issues such as chemical and biological terrorism, lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS), and cyber weapons.»

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.

Jan. 13: After the first conference held by the Future of Life Institute on the «future of artificial intelligence» in Puerto Rico on Jan. 2 - 4, prominent scientists and researchers from industry and academia issue an open letter calling for AI and smart machine research that is «robust and beneficial» to humanity and linking to a document outlining «research directions that can help maximize the societal benefit of AI» including numerous questions on «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

In February 2016, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions and the Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association issued a report containing the recommendation that «autonomous weapons systems that require no meaningful human control should be prohibited.»

A «food for thought» paper disseminated by the GGE chair with key questions for states contains several technology and legal / ethical issues that do not directly relate to the issue of lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Friday morning starts with a final panel on «crosscutting issues» that will be followed in the afternoon by adoption of the final report containing recommendations for future work on lethal autonomous weapons systems.