UN Secretary General says 'Killer Robots' must be stopped, calls autonomous weapons "morally…
- UN SecretaryGeneral 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.
Guterres’ demand to ban these weapons focuses on those capable of identifying, selecting and attacking targets without human oversight, which leaves artificial intelligence and other computer systems in charge of a life-or-death decision.
He ultimately argued that certain decisions must remain exclusively human, and the decision to take a life is well into the boundary of requiring human oversight. Transferring the decision-making to killer robots would be “morally repugnant” and “politically unacceptable,” he argued.
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