Lethal Autonomous Weapons Exist; They Must Be Banned

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It may not be too late to put the evil “Slaughterbots” genie back in the bottle, if the world acts now

By Stuart Russell, Anthony Aguirre, Emilia Javorsky and Max Tegmark

Officials of Turkish defense industry company "STM", work at Autonomous Rotary Wing Attack Drone UAV Kargu production to meet the needs of the security forces at the campus of OSTIM Technopark in Ankara, Turkey on June 11, 2020.
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A chilling future that some had said might not arrive for many years to come is, in fact, already here. According to a recent UN report, a drone airstrike in Libya from the spring of 2020—made against Libyan National Army forces by Turkish-made STM Kargu-2 drones on behalf of Libya’s Government of National Accord—was conducted by weapons systems with no known humans “in the loop.” 

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