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From the premiere of our very own documentary Immoral Code to the first-ever joint statement on autonomous weapons at the UN General Assembly, 2022 was a year of immense progress in the movement to ensure human control in the use…

With only 3 days to consider and adopt a range of measures relating to the operation of the CCW, a brief period of time was allocated to consideration of the report of the Group of Governmental Experts relating…

For the first time at the United Nations General Assembly, states across the world united in delivering a joint statement on autonomous weapons systems. With a total of 70 states joining, this was the largest cross-regional group statement…

Stop Killer Robots is monitoring with concern the reported use of a loitering munition with autonomous capabilities by Russia in central Kyiv, as well as elsewhere in Ukraine.  The Shahed-136 is a one-way attack drone which…

This week, six robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics (the maker of Spot, the robot ‘dog’) published an open letter to the robotics industry, recognising that ‘adding weapons to robots raises 'new risks of harm and serious ethical issues.’

The event provided a critical assessment of the dangers posed by autonomy in weapon systems to international human rights law, including the right to life, prohibition of inhumane and degrading treatment, freedom from discrimination, equality before the law,…

“When we say killer robots, what’s the first thing that comes to your mind?” This is the question we threw around at the Sziget music festival this year, and the answers we got were both interesting and revealing…

The world waits as the CCW proves itself a failed forum. States need to find a way forward or remain complicit in the Russian led deadlock. The final meeting of 2022 of the Group of Governmental…

Although agreement on the substance of a framework continues to develop, states expressed skepticism over proposals for non-binding practices and principles and continue to call for legally binding rules on the development and use of Autonomous Weapon Systems…