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‘Political courage’ urgently needed to address ‘killer robots’
Manage episode 482802053 series 2829213
Autonomous weapon systems, which require no human input to select and apply force, are developing rapidly and pose a threat to existing humanitarian, ethical, human rights and security norms.
At the end of two days of informal consultations in New York this week – as negotiations continues towards a legal framework which will regulate and ban such systems – UN News’s Naima Sawaya spoke to Nicole van Rooijen, executive director of the civil society coalition, Stop Killer Robots.
Naima began by asking Ms Rooijen to describe her organization.
104 episodes
Manage episode 482802053 series 2829213
Autonomous weapon systems, which require no human input to select and apply force, are developing rapidly and pose a threat to existing humanitarian, ethical, human rights and security norms.
At the end of two days of informal consultations in New York this week – as negotiations continues towards a legal framework which will regulate and ban such systems – UN News’s Naima Sawaya spoke to Nicole van Rooijen, executive director of the civil society coalition, Stop Killer Robots.
Naima began by asking Ms Rooijen to describe her organization.
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