Human Rights Watch welcomes the Chair’s background paper from last week and the latest revision of the rolling text dated May 12. We also welcome the opportunity to discuss these documents in an ...

Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots campaign, is deeply concerned about the grave humanitarian threats autonomous weapons systems pose during armed conflict. These systems ...

Several nations met at the United Nations (U.N.) on Monday to revisit a topic that the international body has been discussing for over a decade: the lack of regulations on lethal autonomous weapons ...

AI-based military equipment that once engaged makes decisions on its own. Operating on land, sea and air, drones are the category of lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) known best by the general public.

PLA-linked research indicates a concerted attempt to develop lethal, autonomous drone swarms specifically for urban warfare, ...

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 ...

GENEVA, May 12 (Reuters) - Countries are meeting at the United Nations on Monday to revive efforts to regulate the kinds of AI-controlled autonomous weapons increasingly used in modern warfare, as ...

Over the past three years, autonomous weapon systems have become increasingly prevalent. Unmanned and remotely piloted aircraft, both autonomous and semi-autonomous, have become increasingly central ...