Friday, 10 April 2015

UN urged to ban 'killer robots' before they can be developed

UN urged to ban 'killer robots' before they can be developed


Fully autonomous weapons, already denounced as “killer robots”, should be banned by international treaty before they can be developed, a new report urges the United Nations. Under existing laws, computer programmers, manufacturers and military commanders would all escape liability for deaths caused by such machines, according to the study published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch and Harvard Law School.

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