Sentences with phrase «lethal autonomous weapons systems opens»
The first meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems opens at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva on Monday, 13 November.
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The nations that are part of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) held their first experts meeting on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» in Geneva in May 2014, while a follow - up meeting will open in two weeks time, on 13 April.
An open letter authored by five Canadian experts in artificial intelligence research urges the Prime Minister to urgently address the challenge of lethal autonomous weapons (often called «killer robots») and to take a leading position against Autonomous Weapon Systems on the international stage at the upcoming UN meetings in Geneva.
Earlier this year (2015), the Open Roboethics initiative conducted an international survey to engage members of the public in the discussion of lethal autonomous weapons systems — weapons sys...
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
South Africa welcomes the outcomes of the Fifth Review Conference of the CCW that took place in December 2016 particularly the decision to convene a Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention, and to establish an open - ended Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) to discuss emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).
This year (2015), the Open Roboethics initiative conducted a survey to better understand public opinions on the question of the ethics and governance of autonomous weapons systems that makes the decision to use lethal force without requiring human intervention and systems in which a person in a remote location makes the decision.
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.»
Heyns will address the third meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems at the Convention on Conventional Weapons, which opens at the UN in Geneva on 11 April.
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.
According to the report, «several nations are working towards the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems that can assess information, choose targets and open fire without human intervention» which raises «new challenges for international law and the protection of noncombatants.»
Released at the opening of a major international conference on artificial intelligence (AI) in Melbourne on August 21, the letter lists numerous concerns with fully autonomous weapons, also called lethal autonomous weapons systems or killer robots.