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The first meeting of 2023 of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) on autonomous weapons systems (AWS) took place from 6-10th March. Following the Belén Communique…
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On 24 February 2023, 33 states from Latin American and the Caribbean issued an historic Communiqué from the region calling for “the urgent negotiation of an international legally binding instrument on autonomy in weapons systems.”…
The USA has announced a ‘Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy’ during the international REAIM conference at the Hague, Netherlands on 16th February 2023.
From the premiere of our very own documentary Immoral Code to the first-ever joint statement on autonomous weapons at the UN General Assembly, 2022 was a year of immense progress in the movement to ensure human control in the use…
With only 3 days to consider and adopt a range of measures relating to the operation of the CCW, a brief period of time was allocated to consideration of the report of the Group of Governmental Experts relating…
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For the first time at the United Nations General Assembly, states across the world united in delivering a joint statement on autonomous weapons systems. With a total of 70 states joining, this was the largest cross-regional group statement…
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Stop Killer Robots is monitoring with concern the reported use of a loitering munition with autonomous capabilities by Russia in central Kyiv, as well as elsewhere in Ukraine. The Shahed-136 is a one-way attack drone which…
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This week, six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics (the maker of Spot, the robot ‘dog’) published an open letter to the robotics industry, recognising that ‘adding weapons to robots raises 'new risks of harm and serious ethical issues.’
