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Craig Hale

UN Secretary General says 'Killer Robots' must be stopped, calls autonomous weapons "morally repugnant"

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  • UN Secretary General calls for a global ban on autonomous "killer robots”
  • Guterres argues that delegating life-or-death decisions to machines is “morally repugnant”
  • Governments should take a stance now – not wait for something catastrophic to happen

UN Secretary General António Guterres has called for lethal autonomous weapons, which he describes as ‘killer robots’ to be prohibited under international law following recent discussions at the first Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in Geneva.

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