Month: May 2013

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ICRAC Working Paper Series launched
ByFrank Sauer May 31, 2013April 17, 2017

Today, ICRAC launches its new series of working papers. In ICRAC Working Paper #2 (#1 is to follow suit in the near future), Mark Gubrud and Juergen Altmann present “Compliance Measures for an Autonomous Weapons Convention”, inter alia containing a first conceptual sketch about how to implement technical verification measures to ensure human control and…

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Engineers strongly favour a total ban on killer robots
Bynsharkey May 1, 2013April 17, 2017

Following on from my recent article in The Engineer magazine asking engineers to say “no” to killer robots, they conducted a poll to find out what engineers thought. They wanted to know if they supported our campaign to ban killer robots. We at ICRAC, with a number of other NGOs, are calling for a new…

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Statement on Ethical Considerations in Open Informal Meeting at UNGA 1st Committee

UNGA Informals on LAWS ICRAC Statement on Ethical Considerations Delivered by Prof. Peter Asaro on May 13, 2025 Thank you, Chair. I speak on behalf of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, or ICRAC, a group of academics, experts, scholars and researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, robotics, international law, political science, philosophy and ethics. ICRAC is a co-founding member of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign. We appreciate the organizers of this Informal Meeting including a Session on Ethical Considerations. It has been many years since Ethics has been the primary focus of substantive discussion within the CCW GGE meetings.

Statement on Security in Open informal consultations at UN GA

Statement on Security in “Open informal consultations on lethal autonomous weapons systems held in accordance with General Assembly resolution 79/62, 12-13 May 2025”. Thank you Chair, Presenters, Delegates, My name is Dr. Matthew Breay Bolton, I am Co-Director of Pace University’s International Disarmament Institute and a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC). I would like to raise the importance of thinking about human security and protecting the integrity of the natural environment, considerations beyond traditional interpretations of security as strategic stability. In this regard, I would like to highlight a report recently published by Pace’s International Disarmament

Frequently Asked Questions on LAWS

Memorandum for delegates at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) Meeting on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) Geneva, 13-17 November 2017 ICRAC is an international not-for-profit association of scientists, technologists, lawyers and policy experts committed to the peaceful use of robotics and the regulation of robot weapons. Please visit our website www.icrac.net and follow us on Twitter @icracnet ICRAC is a founding member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots www.stopkillerrobots.org What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)? The term AI tends to evoke science-fiction tropes and even notions of “super intelligence”. But in reality, AI is just an umbrella term given