Wednesday 14 April 2021
OPENING REMARKS
Good morning,
I am so pleased to be able to join you for part of this workshop, which Iâm confident will help us along the path to developing New Zealandâs national policy on the issue of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
In taking on this portfolio Iâve been keen to bring some strong political impetus to disarmament and arms control. I see my role, broadly, as being two-fold â ensuring that New Zealand continues to have a vibrant domestic community of activists, experts, and politicians dedicated to these issues, while also making sure the Government plays a proactive and constructive role in international, through the various avenues available to us. These are interdependent goals â New Zealand cannot contribute strongly internationally if we donât have the expertise to call on at home, but likewise few people will be willing to dedicate their lives to these matters if they perceive the Government as disi
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Greg: they are the exterminators of the terminators. or than 2000 scientists and tech leaders including elon musk find a pledge to stop the development of lethal autonomous weapons, a.k.a. killer robots. it sounds nice but let me give you a quick list of problems. they are too late. they are called drums. that genie is not going back in the bottle. if you are not making them, someone else will. second, elon musk, you create driverless cars and those things can be killer weapons when they screw up. third, only 2000 people sign the pledge and you know who did not sign the pledge? the other 7 billion people on the planet. [laughter] 7 billion non- hippies are free to keep building weapons. those who build the first get to
Greg: they are the exterminators of the terminators. or than 2000 scientists and tech leaders including elon musk find a pledge to stop the development of lethal autonomous weapons, a.k.a. killer robots. it sounds nice but let me give you a quick list of problems. they are too late. they are called drums. that genie is not going back in the bottle. if you are not making them, someone else will. second, elon musk, you create driverless cars and those things can be killer weapons when they screw up. third, only 2000 people sign the pledge and you know who did not sign the pledge? the other 7 billion people on the planet. [laughter] 7 billion non- hippies are free to keep building weapons. those who build the first get to
Greg: they are the exterminators of the terminators. or than 2000 scientists and tech leaders including elon musk find a pledge to stop the development of lethal autonomous weapons, a.k.a. killer robots. it sounds nice but let me give you a quick list of problems. they are too late. they are called drums. that genie is not going back in the bottle. if you are not making them, someone else will. second, elon musk, you create driverless cars and those things can be killer weapons when they screw up. third, only 2000 people sign the pledge and you know who did not sign the pledge? the other 7 billion people on the planet. [laughter] 7 billion non- hippies are free to keep building weapons.