Sentences with phrase «robotic weapons systems»

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots believes that robotic weapons systems should not be making life and death decisions on the battlefield.

It capped off what has been a remarkable year for this international coalition of non-governmental organizations, which can claim much of the credit for drawing attention to the relentless move toward full autonomy in lethal robotic weapons systems which, unchallenged, would forever change the way wars are fought.

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This 22 - page report examines ethical, legal, policy, technical, and other concerns with robotic weapon systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator.

On 13 March, Swiss parliamentarian Beat Flach of the Green Liberal Party introduced Motion 17.3195 calling on the Federal Council to support «an international prohibition of autonomous robotic weapon systems.»

In its statement during the NGO session — its first ever statement in a multilateral fora — the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots welcomed the UN Special Rapporteur and urged all to states endorse and implement its recommendations, including the call for an immediate moratorium on robotics weapons systems that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human.

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Created by Dr. Alexander Leveringhaus, who specializes in moral responsibility and robotic weapons, this initiative analyses how militaries can design ethically responsible combat systems using increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous technology.

The robotic soldier is equipped with thermal imaging, GPS and laser range finders, day and night cameras, an acoustic and chemical detection system, a light - vehicle obscuration smoke system, and a mounted weapons system.

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.

Compared to the 2013's report's extensive analysis and four recommendations on «lethal autonomous robotics,» the 2014 report contains a brief reference to what it now calls «autonomous weapons systems» and recommends that the Human Rights Council «engage with the work done by the disarmament structures in this regard.»

Memorandum for delegates at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) Geneva, 13 - 17 November 2017 ICRAC is an international not - for - profit association of scientists, technologists, lawyers and policy experts committed to the peaceful use of robotics and the regulation of robot weapons.

Professor Stuart Russell described an emerging consensus in the artificial intelligence and robotics community against autonomous weapons systems as «most don't want to build systems that will kill.»

Sharkey introduces the International Campaign for Robotic Arms Control's «Scientists» Call» for a «ban on the development and deployment of weapon systems in which the decision to apply violent force is made autonomously.»

These could include, inter alia, the ability of a fully autonomous system to conform to existing law (including international humanitarian law, human rights law or general international law); potential problems associated with the design of future fully autonomous weapons that could require disarmament action, or the ethical limits to robotic autonomy in deciding on the life or death of a human, to quote just a few.»

Dec. 6 (Brussels) A total of 116 scientists working in fields including artificial intelligence, robotics and computer science issue an open letter calling on Belgium to support a ban on weapon systems lacking meaningful human control over the critical functions of targeting and engagement in every attack.

Japanese robotics experts are scheduled to provide expert presentations at the first Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) experts meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva on 13 - 16 May 2014, including Mr. Hajime Wakuda, director for defense industry, aerospace at Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and Dr. Heigo Sato from Takushoku University.

The United Nations (UN) report calling for a global moratorium on lethal autonomous robotics, weapons systems that can select and kill targets without a human being directly issuing a command, will be considered this week in Geneva.