‘Killer Robots': Russia, US Oppose Treaty Negotiations

Expand At the United Nations in Geneva the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots called on governments to not allow the development of weapons systems that would select and attack targets without any human intervention. © 2018 Clare Conboy (Geneva) – Russia, the United States, and a handful of other nations investing in autonomous weapons are preventing efforts to start negotiations on a new treaty to retain meaningful human control over the use of force, Human Rights Watch said today. More than 70 member countries of the Convention on Conventional Weapons will meet in Geneva on August 20 and 21,…

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