Some will develop
such killer robots regardless of whether the international community frowns on it or not.
Not exact matches
And plenty of movies, books, and warnings from people
such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk allude to the rise of
killer robots.
Terms
such as «
killer robots» andreferences in the media to the Terminator contribute to this, and growing concernsregarding the rising level of automation only make matters worse.
There's everything from machineguns, flamethrowers, rocket launchers, and more imaginative weapons
such as the glove of doom, which releases little
killer robots, and the Suck Cannon, which is able to suck up smaller enemies that can be cannoned out at other foes.
The campaign calls for any future deliberations at the CCW on
killer robots to not repeat the 2014 meeting, which requires «going deeper in exploring substantive aspects,
such as the notion of meaningful human control.»
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.»
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.
Resulting initiatives include the no «manpanels» initiative by campaign co-founder Article 36, which lists men who have pledged not to speak on all - male panels on humanitarian disarmament topics
such as
killer robots.
It also recommended further deliberations on
killer robots at the CCW and in other relevant fora,
such as the Human Rights Council
Aside from the obvious danger of
killer robots gone rogue, the very development of
such systems could lead to a «robotic arms race» that threatens international stability, Goose said.
Supposing
such a case, we might then ask, would an army realizing an institutional plan that was functionally identical to the algorithms of a
killer robot be any less morally problematic?
When we start to look at
killer robots this way, we see that they are the mechanical realizations of much larger sets of institutional intentions, involving the plans of designers and the decisions of people who follow
such plans, individuals who accept certain jobs, develop certain software and put
such software to military use.