The United Nations is Considering a Possible Ban on “Killer Robots”

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Representatives from countries around the world met on Nov. 18 to discuss weapons systems at the United Nations’ Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW). One point of particular interest at the meeting was a call by 22 nations to place an outright ban on the development and utilization of automated weapons, also known as “killer robots.”
Leading up to the convention, hundreds of experts in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics joined in sending