Nearly 130 countries on Saturday agreed on a text defining lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) - "killer robots" to their critics - a first step towards talks on a possible international treaty to regulate them.
UN working towards international treaty to regulate killer robots
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2627648/un-agrees-text-on-lethal-autonomous-weapons
7 Comments
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9h
Guess which countries will just ignore that?
mrdown@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Nobody respect the treaties unfortunately
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
I really think that this is one of those "you can't put the genie back in the bottle" type situations. Any attempt to keep it from happening is good, but I do think that it's far too late.
rimu@piefed.social · 2 pts · 1d
The treaties for landmines and nuclear weapons have had some effect. I think, maybe.
Archimedes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 11h
When Russia invaded Ukraine, all the European border countries immediately mined the border territories 🤷 arms control is a peacetime publicity move. As soon as war becomes a possibility we fire up the meat-grinder. And even more perversely, we celebrate it.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
The treaties are only good for as long as people think they don't need the weapons.
I'd be willing to bet that there's a lot of non-nuclear countries that either have, or can very very quickly put together a nuclear weapon.
eleijeep@piefed.social · 1 pts · 22h
I think we all know what the problem is going to be here. But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't try.