I speak on behalf of Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots campaign. The Martens Clause provides one existing ethical framework against which to assess autonomous weapons ...

Several nations met at the United Nations (U.N.) on Monday to revisit a topic that the international body has been discussing for over a decade: the lack of regulations on lethal autonomous weapons ...

This chart shows state positions on negotiating a new legally-binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.

AI-based military equipment that once engaged makes decisions on its own. Operating on land, sea and air, drones are the category of lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) known best by the general public.

PLA-linked research indicates a concerted attempt to develop lethal, autonomous drone swarms specifically for urban warfare, ...

GENEVA — Countries are meeting at the United Nations on Monday to revive efforts to regulate the kinds of AI-controlled autonomous weapons increasingly used in modern warfare, as experts warn time is ...

In his sci-fi novel, Runaround, Isaac Asimov introduced the three laws of robotics to explore the moral boundaries of machine intelligence. His robots were programmed to preserve human life, obey ...

Debate surrounding international regulatory efforts on autonomous weapon systems is at an impasse. Policymakers hashing out those rules are stuck on whether or not to hammer out a legally binding ...

Weapons capable of identifying and attacking targets automatically have been in use for more than 80 years. An early example is the Mark 24 Fido, a US anti-submarine torpedo equipped with microphones ...