Another bleak warning, another round of Cassandra calls about humanity’s immaculate sense of destructive self. This month, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the head of the International ...
The Pentagon has announced a new four-star military command dedicated to the rapid adoption of killer robots and other ...
International calls for greater restrictions on autonomous weapons systems come as negotiators prepare to meet in Geneva in November to strengthen the existing Convention on Conventional Weapons. The ...
The United Nations and the International Red Cross are urging countries to adopt bans and restrictions on autonomous weapons systems that are often called "killer robots." ...
The Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, aims to address an acquisition system that doesn’t keep pace with ...
UN Secretary General António Guterres has called for lethal autonomous weapons, which he describes as 'killer robots' to be prohibited under international law following recent discussions at the first ...
US, Russia Strip Safeguards From UN 'Killer Robots' Pact ...
The Droid TW 12.7, made by Devdroid, has been used in many of the attacks involving ground robots in Ukraine. Devdroid, CC BY For the first time, Ukraine has captured a Russian position using only ...
At the conceptual level the idea of killer robots is no longer a remote possibility. Already drones and other military machines can be piloted remotely, and some are equipped with missiles. Given the ...
As pervasive computing and specialized hardware become commonplace, the intersection of military technology and artificial intelligence has become a critical issue. This is no longer science fiction ...
America seems gripped with what we might call Battlestar Galactica Syndrome. In the TV show, society developed a technology (supersmart robots) which then produced unintended and terrible results (the ...
UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls lethal autonomous weapons morally repugnant and urges a ban ahead of the November 2026 CCW Review ...