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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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  • The Role of ICRAC in the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations
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    The Role of ICRAC in the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations

    Bymbolton April 9, 2013October 1, 2018

    Last week the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to adopt the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which will aim to constrain the flow of conventional weapons to states and organizations that threaten peace and security or engage in gross violations of human rights and humanitarian law. Several members of the International Committee for Robot Arms…

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    Arms Control for Uninhabited Vehicles: A Detailed Study

    Byaltmann April 2, 2013June 8, 2016

    In a detailed scientific article just published online, physicist and peace researcher Jürgen Altmann (TU Dortmund, Germany) explains that armed uninhabited vehicles (on land, on/under water, in the air) do not exist in a legal vacuum.   For example, they must not be equipped with biological or chemical weapons. In Europe most land and air…

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    Death by algorithm is the ultimate indignity says 2 star general

    Bynsharkey March 18, 2013

    Former Majory General Robert H. Latiff (and Patrick J. McCloskey) has stood up to be counted against the coming autonomous lethal robots. Latiff and McCloskey point out the military benefits of the autonomous machines and then comes the but… The problem is that robotic weapons eventually will make kill decisions on the battlefield with no…

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    Smart Robots? Perhaps not smart enough to be called stupid.

    Bynsharkey March 18, 2013July 3, 2013

    The New York Times has entered the discussion about the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Columnist Bill Keller has produced a well balanced article that looks at the pros and cons of a ban. For the ban, he notes that The arguments against developing fully autonomous weapons, as they are called, range from moral (“they…

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    If Big Dog is a supply robot, then why is it throwing concrete blocks?

    Bynsharkey March 15, 2013April 17, 2017

    The impressive ‘big dog’ robot by Boston Dynamics was ostensibly designed as a robust mule to carry supplies to the front line without putting soldiers in danger. So why then, have robot grippers been added so that it can throw concrete blocks for some distance? It’s not for shelf stacking – that’s for sure.

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    Obama administration admits that drone confrontations could unintentionally trigger hostilities

    Bynsharkey March 15, 2013September 22, 2013

    CNN yesterday reported a confrontation between an Iranian F-4 fighter jet and a predator drone.  But given the November 2012 incident between Iranian fighter jets and a predator, the drones are now routinely accompanied by US military planes. The Iranian F-4 turned away after a verbal warning was issued by one of two US fighter…

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    US can’t make up its mind about the medal of droner

    Bynsharkey March 14, 2013January 19, 2018

    Before he retired from his job as US Secretary of defence, Leon Panetta announced a new ‘distinguished warfare medal to be given to drone pilots who sit thousand miles away from the action. This upset many service people and their families because it has a higher ranking than the ‘bronze star’. The bronze star has…

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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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    A call for engineers to stop autonomous killing machines now.

    Bynsharkey March 12, 2013January 19, 2018

    In this month’s ‘The Engineer’, a magazine for engineers, I published an article calling upon engineers to help with a ban on autonomous lethal weapons. They titled my article “say no to killer robots” which was more direct than my own title of “stop autonomous killing machines now”.   “This is a call to engineers…

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