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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…
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Stop Killer Robots is looking for a creative and dynamic person to join our team to support social media, communications and digital campaigning work to counter digital dehumanisation, reduce the automation of harm, and regulate autonomous weapons.
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States make progress on policy at UN discussions, as momentum builds towards Treaty on AWS
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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Significant act of political leadership as 33 Latin American and Caribbean States deliver Communiqué on AWS
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.”…
USA announces feeble Political Declaration as international momentum for new Treaty on AWS builds
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.
Our Top 5 moments of 2022
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…
States adopt vacuous CCW report on killer robots after civil society is forced out of the meeting
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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70 states deliver joint statement on autonomous weapons systems at UN General Assembly
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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Loitering munitions with autonomous capabilities used in Ukraine
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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Robotics industry takes a stand
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.’
