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Lutiana Barbosa

Lutiana Barbosa has been a federal public defender in Brazil since 2010. She is a Ph.D. candidate in international law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, working on autonomous weapons systems and the international responsibility of states. She is a member of EDHIA, a research group on ethics, human rights and artificial intelligence at the National School of the Federal Public Defender's Office.

OPINIONS

Should We Be Optimistic About the Recent UN Talks on Killer Robots?

Opinion by Lutiana Barbosa and Gustavo Macedo
• August 29, 2022

Think about a weapon that once activated, can select and engage targets without further human intervention. This might sound like science fiction, but autonomous weapons systems, also called killer robots, are being deployed in real time. The Turkish STM…