World must rein in autonomous weapons: UN, Red Cross
The United Nations and the Red Cross warned Tuesday that the world is “dangerously close” to a future where so-called “killer robots” could target humans, and issued an urgent appeal for international regulation of autonomous weapons.
The warning follows a 2023 call by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres and Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), for specific bans and restrictions on the rapidly-developing technology by this year.
Guterres has long warned of the dangers posed by such systems, insisting last month that “machines selecting and engaging their target and taking a life, without human control and judgement… is morally repugnant… and it must be banned by international law”.
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