A United Nations draft report published online this week says the UN should get countries of the world to suspend development of robotic, fully automated weapons systems until "such time as an internationally agreed upon framework" is reached. The draft report was prepared by Christof Heyns, a UN human rights lawyer, and the final version is due later this month. Still, the draft provides a window into the UN's thinking on what will come next after era of remotely piloted drones, presenting an alarming vision of a dystopian near future. "Tireless war machines, ready for deployment at the push of a button, pose the danger of permanent (if low-level) armed conflict," Heyns writes in the draft report.
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/1/4290862/un-draft-report-pause-killer-robots-development
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