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ICRAC’s Heather Roff debates Joshua Foust

ByFrank Sauer October 10, 2013May 1, 2017

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CRUSER Robo-Ethics Continuing Education Series (RECES)
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Guardian: Campaigners call for tighter controls of deadly drones
ByFrank Sauer December 10, 2011

On Thursday 16 September 2010, the Guardian reports on ICRAC’s meeting in Berlin on the rapid proliferation of military drone planes and armed robots and possible arms control measures to curb this development, quoting ICRAC’s Steve Wright: “We need a new treaty to limit proliferation. All the arms fairs now are selling UAVs. It’s naive…

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BotJunkie: International Committee for Robot Arms Control Is Well Intentioned But Kinda Ridiculous
ByFrank Sauer December 1, 2011

The self proclaimed “best robotics blog on the Net!” critically comments in ICRAC’s founding. Noel Sharkey replies, and BotJunkie’s Evan Ackerman addresses Noel in turn. This discussion is well worth a read. The full text can be found here.

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If the US president can order the assassination of Americans overseas, what are the limits to his power?
Bynsharkey March 11, 2013

An article published in the New York Times (March 9 2013) gives great insight into the targeting of US citizens abroad. For the first time we get details of intelligence gathering and the enormous resources that the CIA used to track down and kill US citizen Anwar al-Awlaki. The article talks about one bungled attempt…

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Execution via Mouseclick
ByFrank Sauer July 24, 2012March 2, 2018

On July 23 2012, the German public radio SWR2 ran a 45-minute discussion on Obama’s drone warfare with ICRAC’s Niklas Schoernig as one of the experts on air. More information for the German speaking visitors of our site, as provided by the SWR2 website: Hinrichtung per Mausklick – Sendung vom Montag, 23.7. | 17.05…

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ICRAC Statement at Informal Consultations of the August 2019 CCW GGE on LAWS
ByPeter Asaro August 20, 2019June 22, 2025

Statement delivered by ICRAC Vice-chair Peter Asaro to the CCW GGE Informal Session on the Chair’s Non-Paper, August 19, 2019. “The International Committee for Robot Arms Control, which is a member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, would like to thank the Chair for this Draft, and make the following comments and requests. First…

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ICRAC statement on the human control of weapons systems at the April 2018 CCW GGE
Bynsharkey April 11, 2018December 28, 2020

International Committee for Robot Arms Control Statement to the UN GGE Meeting 2018 Delivered by Prof. Noel Sharkey, on 11 April 2018 Mr Chairperson, We have been very pleased with this morning’s session as states begin to contemplate a move towards policies on the human control of weapons systems. On a pedantic note: we cannot…

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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

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