Germany urged to champion global treaty to ban 'killer robots'

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams and other activists warned on Thursday ...

BERLIN - Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jody Williams and other activists warned on Thursday that fully autonomous weapons could be deployed in just 3-4 years and urged Germany to lead an international campaign for a ban on so-called “killer robots”.

Critics fear that the increasingly autonomous drones, missile defense systems and tanks made possible by new artificial intelligence could turn rogue in a cyber-attack or as a result of programming errors. The United Nations and European Union have called for a global ban, but discussions so far have not yielded a clear commitment to conclude a treaty.

They rallied at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, with a life-sized robot telling onlookers: “Not all robots will be friendly. Stop killer robots now.”

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