Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Harvard IHRC/HRW: "Ban Autonomous Killer Robots Before It's Too Late"

From the "Questions I haven't really been thinking about" file, Harvard Law School and Human Rights Watch:

Losing Humanity
The Case against Killer Robots
50 page PDF

Here's the press release:
Ban ‘Killer Robots’ Before It’s Too Late
 Governments should pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. These future weapons, sometimes called “killer robots,” would be able to choose and fire on targets without human intervention....MORE