lethal autonomous weapons

Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW

On Friday November 13th, AJung Moon from the Open Roboethics initiative delivered a statement at the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Meeting of States Parties....

17 November 2015, by Open Roboethics Initiative

Global majority want autonomous weapons banned: New report

The majority of people are against the use of autonomous weapons capable of identifying and destroying targets without human input, according to a new survey by researchers at the University of Britis...

11 November 2015, by Open Roboethics Initiative

Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin

AI researcher Toby Walsh gives a talk at TEDx Berlin on Killer Robots. Walsh will be participating in a side event and media briefing for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots at the annual meeting of th...

15 October 2015, by Robohub Editors

#IJCAI15 brings together leading researchers in AI

Over one thousand of the world’s top experts in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are in Buenos Aires this week for the 2015 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (#IJCAI15). ...

28 July 2015, by Sabine Hauert

Live tweets from UN #CCWUN debate on lethal autonomous weapons

Experts from all over the world are gathered at the United Nations in Geneva today to debate questions surrounding lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) for the Convention on Certain Conventiona...

13 April 2015, by Robohub Editors

Should robots make life/death decisions? UN to discuss lethal autonomous weapons next week

Should robots be allowed to make life and death decisions? This will be the topic of heated debate at the United Nations (UN) Palais des Nations in Geneva next week (April 13-17th, 2015). As part of...

10 April 2015, by Open Roboethics Initiative

Clearpath’s public stance on Killer Robots sets precedence in corporate responsibility

Last week the Waterloo-based Clearpath publicly pledged not to develop lethal autonomous weapons, otherwise known as "killer robots". In an open letter to the public, Clearpath's CTO Ryan Gariepy wr...

20 August 2014, by AJung Moon

Ron Arkin and Noel Sharkey debate lethal autonomous weapons at UN

The Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) is currently underway at the United Nations in Geneva to discuss questions relating to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons syst...

14 May 2014, by Hallie Siegel