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ICRAC’s Heather Roff debates Joshua Foust

ByFrank Sauer October 10, 2013May 1, 2017

Naval Postgraduate School

CRUSER Robo-Ethics Continuing Education Series (RECES)
Robo-Ethics Panelist Debate (Part 3)

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No room for the buzzing of the drones on the big rock candy mountain
Bynsharkey March 14, 2013

An article in yesterdays Globe and Mail (Canada) emphasized the psychological impact of drone strikes combined with noisy surveillance. Something that is often overlooked is the impact on civilians of the constant buzzing of drones overhead. They may be mainly used for surveillance but even the occasional strike means that no one knows if the…

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DoD Directive on Autonomy in Weapon Systems
ByTech Chair November 27, 2012July 22, 2015

On Nov. 21, as news of Human Rights Watch’s (HRW) “Losing Humanity” report was spreading, the Department of Defense quietly released Directive 3000.09 “for the development and use of autonomous and semi-autonomous functions in weapon systems”, making the United States the first nation to have an official policy statement on autonomous weapon systems (AWS). The…

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US killer robot policy: Full speed ahead
ByTech Chair September 22, 2013January 19, 2018

In November 2012, United States Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter signed directive 3000.09, establishing policy for the “design, development, acquisition, testing, fielding, and … application of lethal or non-lethal, kinetic or non-kinetic, force by autonomous or semi-autonomous weapon systems.” Without fanfare, the world had its first openly declared national policy for killer robots. The policy has…

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Is Russia Leading the World to Autonomous Weapons?
ByTech Chair May 6, 2014July 16, 2015

The short answer is no. But Russia is testing and may deploy at its ICBM bases a lethal mobile system which has “automatic and semi-automatic control modes.” Additionally, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin has recently called for “robotic systems that are fully integrated in the command and control system, capable not only to gather intelligence…

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Everyone is a target
ByPeter Asaro August 12, 2013February 22, 2019

A new short documentary (8 minutes) by Amy Kohn – Autonomous Weapons: everyone is a target – features members of ICRAC giving the reason why we need to move forward with an international legally binding treaty to prohibit research, use and development of autonomous weapons – weapons that once activated can select targets and kill…

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IRF: ICRAC’s Juergen Altmann on unmanned systems and arms control
ByFrank Sauer December 6, 2011

On 7 March 2010, the Austrian “Institut für Religion und Frieden” published an extensive interview with ICARC’s Juergen Altmann. He sums up ICRAC’s critical stance on the recent developments in unmanned systems: We are worried by the accelerating trend to arm uninhabited military vehicles, by the high numbers of non-combatants killed in present US and…

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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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