Sentences with phrase «of autonomous weapons systems on»

States, and everyone else who fights these days, use war to force a policy on an adversary through violence, and our enemies wouldn't be able to change our policy by creating a scrap heap of our autonomous weapons systems on the battlefield.

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Before embarking on the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems, we should bear in mind Walter M. Miller's 1954 science...

It is a confederation of non-governmental organisations and pressure groups lobbying for a ban on producing and deploying fully autonomous weapon systems — where the ability of a human to both choose the precise target and intervene in the final decision to attack is removed.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots will be working hard around the world in 2017 to support the development of national policies on autonomous weapons systems.

This is indeed the purpose of the initiative led by France on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

Switzerland, 8 October We welcome the fact that the question of lethal autonomous weapon systems is being addressed within the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).

The ICRC welcomes the increased attention the international community is paying to autonomous weapons systems, including in the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW).

Government delegates attending next week's annual meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the United Nations in Geneva will decide whether to continue in 2015 with multilateral talks on questions relating to «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

The next milestone for the international process concerns is the CCW's Fifth Review Conference on 12 - 16 December 2016, where states are expected to decide whether to continue the deliberations on lethal autonomous weapons systems and, if so, whether to formalize the mandate to a Group of Governmental Experts and increase the time dedicated to substantive deliberations in 2017.

In Canada, particularly, this year's defence review offered an opportunity for the government to hear from a number of experts on autonomous weapons systems.

It is good to see a desire for further study on the ethical implications of autonomous weapons systems.

This 8,000 - word long - read profiles the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and includes the author's observations of the third CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems held in April 2016.

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.

At the first Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems held at the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May 2014, a number of countries noted the relevance of international human rights law in their statements, including Croatia, Egypt, the Holy See, Mexico, Sierra Leone, and South Africa.

Female experts comprise 42 % of the speakers invited to address the third CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

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.

Mines Action Canada, as a co-founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, believes that the way forward must lead to a pre-emptive ban on autonomous weapons systems as a tool to prevent humanitarian harm without damaging research and development on autonomy and robotics for military or civilian purposes.

The statement by the global coalition of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) urges Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) states to continue the talks they started in May 2014 on questions raised by the emerging technology of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

Second, the majority of states, including my own, Canada, do not have national policies on autonomous weapons systems.

Many of the 117 states party to the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) are expected to attend the four - day meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» in addition to representatives from international and UN agencies, -LSB-...]

Ambassador Jean - Hugues Simon - Michel of France chaired the first CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems in May 2014 and has been replaced by Ambassador Guitton, who is a friend of the chair of the third CCW meeting.

Since its inception in 2012, ORI has been exploring roboethics questions in the domain of self - driving vehicles, care robots, and lethal autonomous weapons systems by taking on stakeholder - inclusive approaches to the questions.

A second aim of the chapter is to describe the relevant law of armed conflict principles applicable to new weapon systems, with a particular focus on the unique legal challenges posed by autonomous weapons.

The second multilateral meeting on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» by members of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) will be held at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva on 13 - 17 April 2015.

This growth reflects the strength of the «no more manpanels» initiative that campaigners started after the first CCW meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems in May 2014 featured 18 speakers but all were men.

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.»

For that reason the UK took part in the productive informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in April this year at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW).

The most significant development for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots in 2016 came at the very end of the year when countries agreed to formalize and dedicate more time to their deliberations on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

France, 26 October In 2015, within the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), we continued the discussions on Lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) that France initiated in 2014.

In particular, it can provide a number of important lessons for civil society and states working towards a pre-emptive ban on autonomous weapons systems.

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.

France (22 October) 2014 was also marked by discussions held in the framework of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), regarding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).

For the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, the highlight of 2015 was the second meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems held at the United Nations in Geneva in April.

In this regard, we share specific humanitarian, moral and legal concerns related to ongoing developments on a set of the so - called «new era warfare tools», including proliferation of amed drones, lethal autonomous weapons system eventual development, cyberspace aggressive use and, finally, risks of militarization of the outer space.

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 function providing an autonomous weapon the ability to make the «kill decision» does not have an equivalent civilian use therefore, pre-emptive ban on autonomous weapons systems would have no impact on the funding of research and development for artificial intelligence.

It seems unlikely, but one new indicator is seen in the unanimous support given to the first multilateral discussions to be held on the topic of «lethal autonomous weapons systems.»

Most of the CCW's 124 high contracting parties participated in three meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in 2014 - 2016, in addition to UN agencies, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots.

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is calling on states to establish a Group of Governmental Experts or «GGE» that can begin formal negotiations in 2017 on a new CCW protocol on lethal autonomous weapons systems.

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.

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.»

United Kingdom (23 October) In the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) we thank France for leading a productive, informal meeting of experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems in May.

Report of the ICRC meeting on autonomous weapons systems held 26 - 28 March 2014 by the ICRC, 9 May 2014.

This briefing come less than a month after the first Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) meeting of experts on «lethal autonomous weapons systems» was held the UN in Geneva on 13 - 16 May.

Last December at their Fifth Review Conference CCW states decided to formalize and expand those deliberations by establishing a Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems to meet in August and November 2017, chaired by Ambassador Amandeep Singh Gill of India.

Many of the 21 countries that attended an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) meeting on autonomous weapons systems in late March are expected to actively participate in the CCW experts meeting (Algeria, Brazil, China, Colombia, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, Norway, Pakistan, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, UK, and US).

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.

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.

At least 23 nations spoke on the matter of autonomous weapons systems in their statements: Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Cuba, Czech Republic, Canada, Croatia, Ecuador, Finland, France, India, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Pakistan, Portugal, New Zealand, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and the USA.