Lethal Autonomy News Today

Red Cross Calls for Limits on Autonomous Weapons Experts said the group’s unique stature might get governments to the negotiating table at last. The International Committee of the Red Cross is calling for new international rules on how governments use autonomous weapons, warning that such weapons will pose new challenges for international humanitarian law in the future and bring “significant risks of harm to civilians and combatants alike,” Peter Maurer, president of the ICRC, sai...

The state of the art in robotics and artificial intelligence continues to advance at an accelerating clip, surprising experts and futurists. Increasingly complex and in telligent machines are changing the texture of human life as they are insinuated into more spheres of activity, from manufacturing to law enforcement to stock trading. Military applications have historically been one of the greatest drivers of innovation. We can trace the history of warfighting—and especially its recent histor...