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"A Moral Red Line": UN Secretary General and ICRC President Renew Urgent Call on Killer Robots
UN Secretary General and ICRC President Renew Urgent Call on Killer Robots Today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a renewed and urgent joint call…
On the Creeping Normalisation of Palantir in AI Governance and Security Spaces
Stop Killer Robots is raising serious concerns about the growing presence of Palantir Technologies in international forums on global security, AI ethics and governance. Palantir is not a neutral technology company; it operates from the ideological positions of…
Stop Killer Robots responds to the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff
This is a technology company telling its government that it cannot responsibly provide what is being asked of it and not for political reasons, but because the capability to do so safely does not exist, and neither do the guardrails to prevent catastrophic harm if it did.
156 states support UNGA resolution on autonomous weapons
On 6 November 2025, the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on autonomous weapons systems for the third year running, concerned by the “consequences and impact of autonomous weapon systems on international…
Humans as data: Migrants, Killer robots, and You.
Photo: Greg Bulla. I’ve spent my career working for…
AI Enabled Kill Webs and the Slippery Slope towards Autonomous Weapons Systems
Original photos: Matt Reding and Markus Spiske.
Five Reasons Why Millennials Need to Ban Killer Robots
Photo by Austin Distel. The vision of Millennials as the…
Techno-optimism, human rights and killer robots…
It’s hard to be taken seriously when you’re a young woman actively working against the development of technologies. Most of the time when I talk about killer robots, I…
Tech for the Good of Humanity
As COVID-19 compels the international community to expand the toolbo…
Killer robots, feminism… and a feminist foreign policy?
Erin Hunt is the Program Manager at Mines Action Canada, a member organisation of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Her expertise includes the humanitarian impact of indiscriminate weapons, victim…
Press release: Civil society joins together to encourage regional cooperation on banning killer robots
Islamabad 10 Dec 2019 PRESS RELEASE: Civil society joins together to encourage regional cooperation on banning killer robots Campaign to Stop Killer Robots members and guests from eight Asian states (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan,…
PRESS RELEASE: Inaction by states allows tech companies and a handful of governments to recklessly pursue the
EMBARGOED until 6am EST Oct 21 21 October 2019 New York, USA. PRESS RELEASE: Inaction by states allows tech companies and a handful of governments to recklessly pursue the development of fully autonomous weapons. Only a new…
PRESS RELEASE: Only a new ban treaty will prevent a future of killer robots. Foreign ministers must commit to
26 September 2019 New York, USA. PRESS RELEASE: Only a new ban treaty will prevent a future of killer robots. Foreign ministers must commit to launching negotiations now. Dozens of foreign ministers endorsed a killer robots declaration today…
