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Minefields to Minespace: The Changing Architecture of Autonomous Killing
At the end of April, I presented at a conference titled “Between Architecture of War and Military Urbanism” organized by the Faculty of Architecture in Tallinn, Estonia. It was a fascinating...
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Noel Sharkey Makes Case against Killer Robots at TEDx Sheffield
Professor Noel Sharkey, a roboticist at the University of Sheffield and chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) makes the case of why we should ban fully autonomous armed...
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The Politics of Killer Robots: Experts Consider Political, Legal and Ethical...
Not all conduct is justified in war. Centuries of tradition – from religious texts to chivalry and honor codes to modern international humanitarian and human rights law – have limited what weapons...
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France and Egypt Call for Action on Killer Robots at UN General Assembly...
Ambassador M. Jean-Hugues Simon-Michel of France called for action from the international community to deal with the threat of fully autonomous robotic weapons in the UN General Assembly First...
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Killer Robots Now Officially on Global Policymaking Agenda
This afternoon states party to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) agreed to open discussions on the emerging class of autonomous weapons systems — “killer robots” — which would...
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Taking a Stand Against Gender Discrimination in Disarmament Policymaking
Last week, I attended the discussions on fully-autonomous weapons (“Killer Robots”) at the UN in Geneva as a representative of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC). The...
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“Growing autonomy in weapons poses a grave threat to humanitarian and human...
I was quoted today in article on growing autonomy in naval weapons, saying: “Growing autonomy in weapons poses a grave threat to humanitarian and human rights law, as well as international peace and...
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Killer Robots Remain on UN Agenda
At a meeting of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN in Geneva, states agreed to keep autonomous weapons systems — “killer robots” — on the agenda for the coming year. States...
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Minefields to Minespace: Tracing the Changes in Remote and Automated Violence...
The US M18A1 Claymore Mine: an artifact of a certain military discourse that divides war simply between the “Front” and “Rear”. Trends in contemporary conflict challenge this binary notion. The...
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My Statement for the International Committee for Robot Arms Control at the UN...
On 17 April, I delivered the closing statement for the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Informal Meeting of Experts at the...
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Technologies that will alter our world in 2016
I contributed a short piece on “killer robots” at the beginning of the year for an online forum convened by OpenCanada on “technologies that will alter our world”: While we are becoming increasingly...
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