Sentences with phrase «take on killer robots»
The consensus of governments to take on killer robots also represents a recognition by the traditional Geneva - based disarmament diplomatic community that the Convention on Conventional Weapons should not become as moribund as the Conference on Disarmament, which has failed to do any substantive work since 1997.
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Poland's Ambassador Remigiusz A. Henczel will chair the next annual CCW meeting, where on 14 November 2014 nations will take a decision on whether to continue the work on killer robots.
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.
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.
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.
Danish television and radio outlets also covered the call for Denmark to take a strong stance on killer robots.
Sri Lanka's Ambassador Ravinath Aryasinha from the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) group will preside over the next annual CCW meeting, where on 13 November 2015 nations will take a decision on whether to continue deliberations on killer robots in 2016.
The work on killer robots at the UN in New York has attracted strong media interest with articles by TIME World, Computer World (in German), Fast Company, NBC News, and VICE, an op ed in SBS News, and blog post by Just Security, Take Part, and Toward Freedom.
If you were expecting an army of killer robots, take solace in the knowledge our new overlords are far more villainous: they're social engineers bent on changing the DNA of our society through the perversion of science for the purpose of propaganda.