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A New Agenda for Peace, released today by United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, has issued an urgent call to states to adopt a legal treaty to prohibit and regulate autonomous weapons systems…

From 5 June to 8 June 2023, the Stop Killer Robots campaign participated in RightsCon Costa Rica, a conference that gathered thousands of individuals, activists, civil society and industry stakeholders to discuss key…

Reports that the United States Air Force simulated a scenario where an AI-operated drone decided to kill the human operator in order to achieve the mission objective are deeply concerning. While the US Air Force has confirmed that this was…

Thank you, Chair, and thank you to Costa Rica for their kind invitation to address the Permanent Council. I speak on behalf of the Stop Killer Robots campaign, an international coalition of over 200 member organisations from more than 70…

The final meeting of this year’s discussions at the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) meeting on autonomous weapons systems (AWS), from 15-19th May 2023, ended without substantive progress. Once again, the outcome report…

Stop Killer Robots is looking for a creative and dynamic person to join our team to support social media, communications and digital campaigning work to counter digital dehumanisation, reduce the automation of harm, and regulate autonomous weapons.

The first meeting of 2023 of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) at the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) on autonomous weapons systems (AWS) took place from 6-10th March. Following the Belén Communique…

On 24 February 2023, 33 states from Latin American and the Caribbean issued an historic Communiqué from the region calling for “the urgent negotiation of an international legally binding instrument on autonomy in weapons systems.”…

The USA has announced a ‘Political Declaration on Responsible Military Use of AI and Autonomy’ during the international REAIM conference at the Hague, Netherlands on 16th February 2023.