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Speaker urges United Nations-backed ban on autonomous lethal weapons
Summary
An unidentified speaker warned that fully autonomous weapon systems, including armed drones, threaten civilian safety and legal accountability and said the United Nations supports a ban and urgent international rules.
An unidentified speaker, a speaker at the meeting, warned that fully autonomous weapon systems — including armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — pose grave legal, moral and practical risks and said the United Nations supports a ban.
The speaker said the growing use of remotely operated and potentially autonomous systems is changing the battlefield, citing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East and warning that machines can be given decision-making power to target and fire without further human intervention. "When autonomy means that once you actually switch it on, then the machines actually are fully delegated with…
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