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"A Moral Red Line": UN Secretary General and ICRC President Renew Urgent Call on Killer Robots
UN Secretary General and ICRC President Renew Urgent Call on Killer Robots Today, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres and the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross issued a renewed and urgent joint call…
On the Creeping Normalisation of Palantir in AI Governance and Security Spaces
Stop Killer Robots is raising serious concerns about the growing presence of Palantir Technologies in international forums on global security, AI ethics and governance. Palantir is not a neutral technology company; it operates from the ideological positions of…
Stop Killer Robots responds to the Anthropic-Pentagon standoff
This is a technology company telling its government that it cannot responsibly provide what is being asked of it and not for political reasons, but because the capability to do so safely does not exist, and neither do the guardrails to prevent catastrophic harm if it did.
156 states support UNGA resolution on autonomous weapons
On 6 November 2025, the First Committee of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) adopted a resolution on autonomous weapons systems for the third year running, concerned by the “consequences and impact of autonomous weapon systems on international…
GGE pushes decisions to critical Review Conference
Yesterday evening, 8 December 2021, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN concluded its work for 2021 – finalising its report to be submitted to the 6th Review Conference of the…
New Zealand to push for new international law on Killer Robots
In a powerful demonstration of political and moral leadership, the government of New Zealand has committed to pursuing new international law to prohibit and regulate autonomy in weapons systems to ensure meaningful human control over force. …
The Ypres Peace Prize
“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like…
A Preview of Political Leadership - Vienna Conference
On 15-16 September 2021, the Austrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted an online conference on Safeguarding Human Control over Autonomous Weapons. Taking place over two afternoon sessions, it kicked off with a High Level Panel that provided a striking…
Momentum towards a new legal framework
A total of 55 countries were represented with intense and focussed discussions on key elements of a potential new framework. Our Campaign was present throughout – in person and virtually, and fuelled progress towards a consensus on the policy ingredients…
No Dehumanising Tech
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Digital Dehumanisation — When machines decide, not people
We didn’t expect a Campaign to Stop Killer Robots to be needed in the world — but it is. Globally, we are seeing a growing influence of computer processing and algorithmic thinking: taking “There’s an app for that!” to…
Passing the Baton
Mary Wareham with the Campaign’s robot in front of the United Nations building in New York, October 2019. Photo: Ari Beser.
Banning killer robots in a pandemic: What made us proud in 2020
There is never a dull moment at the Campaign to…
