killer robots
- Opinion by Lutiana Barbosa and Gustavo Macedo
- • August 29, 2022
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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…
- Categories: Disarmament, OPINIONS, Peace and Security
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- Opinion by Angela Kane
- • December 11, 2016
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Discussions on artificial intelligence too often revolve around concerns about the sensationalist threat of “killer robots,” usually featured in science-fiction films or computer games. Killing is depicted as easy and rapid, done by steel-clad monsters with superhuman abilities. Let…
- Categories: Disarmament, OPINIONS
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- Mirva Lempiainen
- • June 17, 2013
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A lifeless baby lies on the ground. Half of a woman’s face has been blown off. A mother screams in a hospital after losing her son because of inadequate medication. A text fills the big white screen: global…
- Categories: Africa, Development, Disarmament, Human Rights, Security Council, Women