Statement by the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to the Convention on Conventional Weapons

Thank you Mr. Chair. The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is the rapidly growing coalition of more than 130 non-governmental organizations in 60 countries working with urgency to prohibit fully autonomous weapons, also known as lethal autonomous weapons systems. Mr. Chair, it’s abundantly clear from the Convention on Conventional Weapons deliberations since 2014 that such weapons systems raise a host of fundamental ethical, moral, legal, accountability, operational, and security challenges. These will only increase until there is regulation. Weapons systems that would select and engage targets on…

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