{"id":82266,"date":"2018-09-02T21:02:20","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/activists-urge-killer-robot-ban-before-it-is-too-late"},"modified":"2018-09-02T21:02:20","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T04:02:20","slug":"activists-urge-killer-robot-ban-before-it-is-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/activists-urge-killer-robot-ban-before-it-is-too-late","title":{"rendered":"Activists urge killer robot ban \u2018before it is too late\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/activists-urge-killer-robot-ban-before-it-is-too-late.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots \u201cbefore it is too late\u201d, activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.<\/p>\n<p>They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the talks\u2014the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)\u2014for moving too slowly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKiller robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction,\u201d Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty International\u2019s advisor on artificial intelligence and human rights, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018-08-activists-urge-killer-robot-late.html\">https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2018&#45;08-activists-urge-killer-robot-late.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots \u201cbefore it is too late\u201d, activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN. They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-robotics-ai","category-treaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}