lethal autonomous weapons

Open Roboethics initiative delivers statement to United Nations CCW

Open Roboethics Initiative 17 Nov 2015

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....

Global majority want autonomous weapons banned: New report

Open Roboethics Initiative 11 Nov 2015

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...

Fully autonomous weapons: Toby Walsh at TEDx Berlin

Robohub Editors 15 Oct 2015

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...

#IJCAI15 brings together leading researchers in AI

Sabine Hauert 28 Jul 2015

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). ...

Live tweets from UN #CCWUN debate on lethal autonomous weapons

Robohub Editors 13 Apr 2015

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...

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

Open Roboethics Initiative 10 Apr 2015

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...

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

AJung Moon 20 Aug 2014

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...

Ron Arkin and Noel Sharkey debate lethal autonomous weapons at UN

Hallie Siegel 14 May 2014

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...