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An open letter, signed last year by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies calling for a United Nations ban on killer robots states, «Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in warfare.
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In the week that followed the Group of Governmental Experts meetings, states convened again at the UN in Geneva for the CCW's annual meeting, where they agreed to continue their killer robots deliberations in 2018 and approved Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India to continue as chair.
At the previous First Committee session in 2014, 23 states raised killer robots concerns while 16 did so in 2013.
On 13 - 15 December, Main Committee II chaired by Ambassador Tudor Ulianovschi of the Republic of Moldova with vice-chair Ambassador Alice Guitton of France will prepare the draft mandate for future work on lethal autonomous weapons systems.The mandate will be based on recommendations agreed by states at the third CCW meeting on killer robots held in April 2016.
They will urge nations to invoke the Martens Clause, which requires that states take evolving public perspectives into account when determining whether weapons such as killer robots can meet the «dictates of public conscience» and the «principles of humanity.»
A crucial week of formal discussions on killer robots that was due to take place in Geneva in April 2017 and then rescheduled to August has been cancelled because several states, most notably Brazil, failed to pay their dues for the convention's meetings.
At the beginning of the Convention on Conventional Weapons annual meeting on 11 November 2013, UN Secretary - General Ban Ki - moon made his first statement on killer robots, calling on states parties to «remain vigilant in addressing the implications of new and emerging weapons and their technologies.»
The December 2016 decision by the 125 states parties to the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) to formalize their deliberations on killer robots raised expectations that these talks would become more substantive.
The first multilateral debate on killer robots took place at the Human Rights Council in May 2013, but states have not considered this topic at the Council since then.
States should embrace the call to ban killer robots and work together to find other mechanisms to achieve this objective if the CCW route fails to deliver swift results.
States again agreed again — by consensus — in November 2014 to continue the CCW deliberations on killer robots, scheduling a second «informal meeting of experts» on 13 - 17 April 2015.
During the year, campaigners undertook national actions on killer robots — including public briefings and parliamentary outreach — for the first time in Canada, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United States.
Dec. 14: The Dalai Lama (1989) and other Nobel Peace Laureates issue a declaration that states, «we support the call for a pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous weapons (killer robots)-- weapons that would be able to select and attack targets without human intervention» and urges «we must prevent this new form of inhumane warfare.
Back in 2015, Belgium's current Minister of Defence Steven Vandeput declared that killer robots gives him «cold shivers» and stated that he does not favor such weapon systems.
A declaration issued by the Nobel Peace Laureates at their Rome summit in December states, «we support the call for a pre-emptive ban on fully autonomous weapons (killer robots)-- weapons that would be able to select and attack targets without human intervention» and urges, «we must prevent this new form of inhumane warfare.»
On killer robots, the resolution calls on the European Union (EU) member states, the Council of Ministers of the EU, and the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Catherine Ashton, to «ban the development, production and use of fully autonomous weapons which enable strikes to be carried out without human intervention.»
On Friday, 15 April, states attending the CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (another term for killer robots) agreed by consensus to recommend that deliberations on the topic continue with the formation of an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts.
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.
Ambassador Matthew Rowland of the UK is serving as president of this meeting, which will decide on future CCW work on killer robots when states adopt the meeting's final report on the afternoon of Friday, 24 November.
The decision by states at the CCW's Fifth Review Conference to formalize the process on killer robots that the CCW started in November 2013 demonstrates progress as it moves to the next level of deliberations.