The world needs a treaty on #KillerRobots - autonomous weapons systems that could, by themselves, target & attack human beings.
Unfortunately, current talks have been going nowhere.
Going nowhere since 2014, in fact.
Meanwhile, arms developers have been working away…
Unfortunately, current talks have been going nowhere.
Going nowhere since 2014, in fact.
Meanwhile, arms developers have been working away…
Since 2014, discussions within the Convention on Conventional Weapons have proved useless, mainly because it relies on a consensus approach to decision-making, which means a single country can reject any proposal, even if everyone else agrees.
To achieve a new treaty to #StopKillerRobots, governments need to take a new tack.
They should initiate negotiations of a new treaty, either outside the UN, like the landmine or cluster munitions treaties, or in the UN General Assembly, like the nuclear weapons ban treaty.
They should initiate negotiations of a new treaty, either outside the UN, like the landmine or cluster munitions treaties, or in the UN General Assembly, like the nuclear weapons ban treaty.
NEW from Human Rights Watch & Harvard Law School International Human Rights Clinic: hrw.org/news/2022/11/1…
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