UN Debates the Future of Killer Robots -- Vice News
The arms race is going sci-fi, and humans are playing catch-up.
United Nations diplomats convened today in Geneva for a week-long meeting of experts on killer robots.
Lethal Automated Weapon Systems (LAWS) — their more technical term — would be able to track and engage targets on their own, without human intervention. They don’t yet exist, but several countries are close.
Though armed robots conjure images of Terminator-like humanoids, they would likely first come from the sky, the evolved offspring of drones used by the CIA.
“We should be focusing on the likely trajectory of technological development, not images from popular culture,” said Stephen G. Townly, legal adviser to the US Department of State, and part of the American team in Geneva.
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