UN: ‘Killer Robots’ Talks Fall Short

Expand As the debate about “killer robots” continues, the threat they pose looms large. © 2016 Russell Christian for Human Rights Watch (Geneva) – Countries meeting in Geneva on November 13-24, 2017, missed a chance to move ahead to prevent the development of weapons systems that would select and engage targets without meaningful human control, Human Rights Watch said today. The countries agreed to continue diplomatic talks that started in 2014 to consider concerns raised over “killer robots,” or lethal autonomous weapons systems. But the unambitious diplomatic process falls far short of…

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