{"id":82514,"date":"2018-09-12T08:03:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/why-its-so-hard-to-reach-an-international-agreement-on-killer-robots"},"modified":"2018-09-15T12:22:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T19:22:34","slug":"why-its-so-hard-to-reach-an-international-agreement-on-killer-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/why-its-so-hard-to-reach-an-international-agreement-on-killer-robots","title":{"rendered":"Why it\u2019s so hard to reach an international agreement on killer robots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-its-so-hard-to-reach-an-international-agreement-on-killer-robots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For several years, civil society groups have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopkillerrobots.org\/\">calling for a ban<\/a> on what they call \u201ckiller robots\u201d. Scores of technologists have <a href=\"https:\/\/futureoflife.org\/open-letter-autonomous-weapons\/\">lent their voice<\/a> to the cause. Some two dozen governments now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopkillerrobots.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/KRC_CountryViews_13Apr2018.pdf\">support a ban<\/a> and several others would like to see some kind of international regulation.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the latest talks on \u201clethal <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/autonomous+weapons\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">autonomous weapons<\/a> systems\u201d wrapped up last month with no agreement on a ban. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unog.ch\/80256EE600585943\/(httpPages)\/7C335E71DFCB29D1C1258243003E8724?OpenDocument\">Group of Governmental Experts<\/a> meeting, convened in Geneva under the auspices of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, did not even clearly proceed towards one. The outcome was a decision to continue discussions next year.<\/p>\n<p>Those supporting a ban are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/news\/2018\/09\/05\/support-grows-killer-robots-ban\">not impressed<\/a>. But the reasons for the failure to reach agreement on the way forward are complex.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-hard-international-agreement-killer-robots.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-hard-international-agreeme...obots.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For several years, civil society groups have been calling for a ban on what they call \u201ckiller robots\u201d. Scores of technologists have lent their voice to the cause. Some two dozen governments now support a ban and several others would like to see some kind of international regulation. Yet the latest talks on \u201clethal autonomous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82514","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82674,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82514\/revisions\/82674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}