Heeding Mr Guterres' call, representatives from 70 countries are meeting in Geneva this week to discuss concerns raised by lethal
autonomous weapons, commonly known as 'Killer Robots'.
Pakistan, he said, supports an open ended working group through the Group of governmental Experts on lethal
autonomous weapons and is open to addressing the issue in other multilateral forums, including the Conference on Disarmament.
He said Pakistan supports an open ended working group through the Group of governmental Experts on lethal
autonomous weapons and is open to addressing the issue in other multilateral forums, including the Conference on Disarmament.
Hence, when debating
autonomous weapon systems and the critical functions of these weapons, this is the phase focused on most.
human-supervised
autonomous weapon systems designed to allow human
There is a wide variety of topics related to the development and employment of lethal
autonomous weapon systems.
Without a platform to share those concerns governments may assume silence is consent of support, so we have created a letter for military personnel, both current or retired, to sign on to also to support a pre-emptive ban on
autonomous weapon systems.
It says: "Once developed, lethal
autonomous weapons will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend.
Available technology and unforeseen world events will make it increasingly difficult to apply the law of armed conflict and international law relating to the use of force via
autonomous weapons systems in a consistent manner that adheres to U.S.
In short, however, I propose that the notion of 'Meaningful Human Control' over the use of a weapon is only satisfied where the control that a fighter exercises over a weapon is to such a degree that the actions of an
Autonomous Weapon System are entirely his--the system depends on the control of the human fighter to execute the 'critical functions' like the decision as to who to kill and legal calculations on the lawfulness of an attack.
"States should adopt an international, legally binding instrument that prohibits the development, production, and use of fully
autonomous weapons," declared Human Rights Watch (HRW) and the International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) in an April statement.
Imagine a marine
autonomous weapon system, armed with torpedoes, designed to patrol within a preset region and attack anything it identifies as an enemy warship.