Posted on 08/10/2020 10:24:32 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Human Rights Watch has called on countries to negotiate on a new international treaty against the so-called “killer robots”, adding that as many as 30 nations have shown a desire to explicitly ban fully autonomous weapons.
In a report released on Monday, the New York-based nongovernmental organization reviewed the policies of 97 countries that have publicly discussed their views on fully autonomous weapons since the issue was first heard at the Human Rights Council in 2013.
The report titled, “Stopping Killer Robots: Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control,” says that a growing number of countries are now recognizing the need to save humanity from these “killer robots” that are also categorized as lethal autonomous weapons systems.
Since 2013, a coalition of HRW and more than 160 other NGOs has been at the helm of the “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots”, that seeks to pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons. […]
According to the report, the countries calling for the ban include: Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, China (use only), Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Djibouti, Ecuador, El Salvador, Egypt, Ghana, Guatemala, the Holy See, Iraq, Jordan, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, the State of Palestine, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe. […]
However, HRW said that military giants such as Russia and the United States have blocked progress towards regulation while also investing majorly in the use of artificial intelligence for military purposes and developing land, sea and air-based autonomous weapons systems. …
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Death to SkyNet!
ED-209 is deeply saddened.
LOLOL
Basically every country signing on with these idiots are countries with no tech base to begin with. Time to investigate who these aholes are really working for.
Next they’ll be banning bioweapons.
Sure, it begins; innocently enough, with killer robots. After that, they’ll turn their attentions to outlawing the original fully autonomous weapons, and there won’t be anywhere for us to get a beer.
If Skynet is going to happen then it will.
Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop... ever, until you are dead!
Cruise missiles?
Drones?
What is a “robot”?
Something that makes its own decisions, maybe?
The sad thing is, the fact that they need to be banned indicates that they are almost certainly going to be used.
How to get there?
When to launch?
In the simplest terms a traffic light is a robot.
And so are the cameras that take photos of speeders and those running lights.
Russia already has a doomsday device that is a robot designed to launch a mutually assured destruction attack against the West if it senses Russia has experienced a nuclear bombing.
It was created after a Soviet refused the order to launch a MAD attack in response to flakey intel readings.
It is still armed and alive.
They don’t make their own decisions. It’s bare boned automation.
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