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For eight years, UN negotiators have argued on limits of deadly autonomous weapon

As a critical meeting on the subject begins in Geneva, has urged for new laws governing the use of autonomous weapons.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Monday for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva.

GENEVA, Dec 13 — United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called today for new rules covering the use of autonomous weapons as a key meeting on the issue opened in Geneva. Negotiators at the UN talks have for eight years been discussing limits on lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which...

Instead of a binding agreement regulating or prohibiting the employment of "killer robots," the United States has proposed a "code of conduct" at the United Nations.A US official scoffed at the concept of limiting the deployment of such "lethal autonomous weapons" through a "legally-binding instrument" during a meeting in Geneva aimed at establishing common ground.

US official proposes ‘non-binding code of conduct’ at United Nations but campaigners disagree

In welcome news, the Aotearoa New Zealand government has announced it will push for the adoption of new international law to prohibit and limit autonomous weapons systems. The policy commits New Zealand to play “a leadership role in building an inclusive coalition of states, experts and civil society” to achieve this goal.

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” — John Muir “All things are connected like the blood that unites us. We do not weave the web of life, we are merely a strand in it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to […]

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