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Support Grows for Killer Robots Ban

September 5, 2018
Mary Wareham
Human Rights Watch
Opposition to the creation of so-called “killer robots” – weapons systems that could select and attack targets without any human intervention – is growing.
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Why No Sense of Urgency on ‘Killer Robots?’

November 27, 2017
Mary Wareham
Human Rights Watch
Progress Sluggish at Key UN Meeting on Fully Autonomous Weapons
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It’s Time For a Binding, Absolute Ban on Fully Autonomous Weapons

November 9, 2017
Mary Wareham
Equal Times
A central concern with fully autonomous weapons is that they will cross a moral line that should never be crossed by permitting machines to make the determination to take a human life.
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