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 […] Continue Reading

UNGA LAWS Informals ICRAC Statement on Technical Considerations Delivered by Prof. Peter Asaro, 13 May 2025 Thank you Chair. I speak on behalf of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, or ICRAC, a co-founding member of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign. ICRAC has many concerns about the development and use of autonomous weapons and […] Continue Reading

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, 21-25 September the world’s governments will discuss at the UN in Geneva the humanitarian and security threat posed by “lethal autonomous weapons systems” – high-tech killer robots that could target people without meaningful human control over the use of violence. But despite the media clichés that often accompany these discussions […] Continue Reading

El próximo Viernes día 12 de Abril a las 16:30h celebraremos en compañía de Jody Williams, premio Nobel de la Paz 1997, y presidenta de la Iniciativa de mujeres Nobel desde 2006, un acto enmarcado en la campaña Stop Killer Robots en el que además participaran los miembros del ICRAC, la Dra Roser Martinez Quirante […] Continue Reading

El próximo lunes día 11 de Marzo a las 18h presentaremos en Madrid la Campaña “Stop Killer Robots”. El acto se celebrará en el Circulo de Bellas Artes (Sala Nueva) y contará con la participación de ICRAC, FundiPau, Centre Delàs d’estudis per la Pau, CEIPAZ y Demospaz. El acto se enmarca dentro del ciclo electoral […] Continue Reading

ICRAC Statement to the 2017 UN CCW GGE Meeting Delivered by Noel Sharkey, Chair, on 15 November 2017 I speak on behalf of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, a founding member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. We would like to thank Ambassador Gill for his preparations of this important meeting. And […] Continue Reading

After three informal meetings of experts, the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, during its Fifth Review Conference taking place from 12 to 16 December 2016 in Geneva, will decide on how to continue work on arms control for autonomous weapon systems. Below is a preview to an article published in the October 2016 issue of Arms Control […] Continue Reading