Losing Humanity report
On November 19, 2012, Human Rights Watch issued its “Losing Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots.” The 50-page report outlines the organization’s concerns with fully autonomous weapons, which would...
View ArticleA Call to Engineers
On behalf of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), roboticist Noel Sharkey has issued a call to engineers to “stand up and demand the prohibition of autonomous lethal targeting by...
View ArticleNew US policy
On 21 November 2012, the Department of Defense of the United States issued its first-ever policy on autonomy in weapons systems, requiring that a human always be “in-the-loop” when decisions are made...
View ArticleNGO Conference
On Monday, April 22, the Steering Committee of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots convened a day-long conference at the Human Rights Action Centre in London for representatives from non-governmental...
View ArticleOur campaign and call to action
On April 23, a news conference was held at the Frontline in London to publicly launch the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. In its first public statement, the campaign called for urgent action to...
View ArticleCampaign launch in London
This week saw the launch of the international Campaign to Stop Killer Robots in London with a series of events to brief activists, media, and parliamentarians. A conference for non-governmental...
View ArticleUN report on lethal autonomous robotics
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...
View ArticleNations to debate killer robots at UN
On Thursday (30 May) at approximately 9.30am in Geneva nations will debate what to do about fully autonomous weapons for the first time ever at the United Nations (UN). Several countries have...
View ArticleUnited Kingdom debating killer robots
Representatives from both sides of the House of Commons in the United Kingdom agree that fully autonomous weapons raise numerous concerns warranting further deliberation, including at the international...
View ArticleICRC on new technologies and warfare
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has issued a new edition of its quarterly journal International Review of the Red Cross, focused on new technologies and warfare and featuring...
View ArticleNorwegian campaign gets underway
Interest in tackling fully autonomous weapons is growing in Norway with events in Oslo on 4 September, where campaigners outlined civil society concerns and called on the government and opposition...
View ArticleGerman support builds for the ban
Following significant outreach by non-governmental organizations, German politicians and officials are beginning to commit to the call to ban fully autonomous weapons, known as vollständig autonome...
View ArticleFrance convenes seminar at the UN
On 3 September 2013, France in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs held a seminar for interested governments and civil society on fully autonomous weapons systems. The...
View ArticleBuilding awareness in Sweden
A number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Sweden including Civil Rights Defenders, Svenska Freds (Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society, SPAS), and the Women’s International League for Peace...
View ArticleScientists call for a ban
The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), a founder of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, has issued a statement endorsed by more than 270 engineers, computing and artificial...
View ArticleIt’s Time for International Talks
At an event at the United Nations in New York today (Monday, 21 October), representatives of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots urged all nations to agree to begin international talks aimed at...
View ArticleCampaigning at the UN in New York
At the newly refurbished United Nations in New York this month there have been several signs that momentum is building behind calls for international talks on fully autonomous weapons, also known as...
View ArticleMore states speak out at UN
The 2013 session of the United Nations General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security has seen a number of states speak for the first time about fully autonomous weapons,...
View ArticleSeize the opportunity for action
States should seize the opportunity to take international action to prevent the creation of fully autonomous robot weapons. On Friday, 15 November at the United Nations in Geneva, States Parties to the...
View ArticleNations agree to take on killer robots!
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots welcomes the historic decision taken by nations today to begin international discussions on how to address the challenges posed by fully autonomous weapons. The...
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