ICRAC works for the regulation of robotic weapon systems and is committed to the peaceful use of robotic technology. To further pursue this latter goal, ICRAC’s Noel Sharkey co-founded the Foundation for Responsible Robotics. In a recently published piece on Research Fortnight, Sharkey and Aimee van Wynsberghe write: The robotics revolution will have a disruptive…
Stop the Killer Robots from Kamille Rodriguez on Vimeo. The video explains that a ban on killer robots would not have negative impacts on the development of other robotics applications and research. It was created for ICRAC by digital animation artist Kamille Rodriguez: http://www.kamillerodriguez.com/
The Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (IIIM) has issued an ethical policy that makes them the first Artificial Intelligence research and development group to reject the development of technologies intended for military operations. IIIM is an independent research institute affiliated with Reykjavik University in Reykjavik, Iceland “It is only fitting that a research center in Iceland…
Thousands of experts in artificial intelligence, robotics and related professions have signed an open letter, hosted by the Future of Life Institute, calling for a ban on autonomous weapons that select and engage targets without human intervention. You can read more on the importance of this letter to the current global effort of banning lethal…
Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 9:53 Interviews with: Ryan Gariepy, Chief Technical Officer, Clearpath Robotics Stuart Russell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of California at BerkeleyThis is episode 6 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series.In this episode we discuss the social responsibility…
Interviews with: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty International, Advocate/Advisor in Arms Control, Security Trade, and Human Rights Steve Wright, Reader in the School of Social Science at Leeds Beckett University, and ICRAC Member This is episode 4 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Rasha Abdul Rahim…
This is episode 4 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Nehal Bhuta is a highly respected Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He was one of the experts chosen to speak at the 2015 CCW Informal Meeting of Experts on LAWS….
This is episode 3 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Jody Williams has been a humanitarian campaigner for most of her adult life. In 1991 she began coordinating the successful Campaign to Ban Landmines and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997. But she didn’t…
This is episode 2 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Steve Goose has been heavily involved in the prohibition of three nasty weapons systems. In this podcast he tells us about the discussions at the CCW are panning out and compares the pace with previous…