‘Killer Robots:’ Ban Treaty Is the Only Credible Solution

Expand The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots stands outside the United Nations in New York during the General Assembly in 2018. © 2018 Clare Conboy (New York) – France, Germany, and other nations that are committed to a rules-based international order should begin negotiations on a new international treaty to ban preemptively lethal autonomous weapons systems, also known as fully autonomous weapons or killer robots. On September 26, 2019, foreign ministers from France, Germany, and dozens of other countries endorsed a declaration at the United Nations addressing lethal autonomous weapons systems.…

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