Reinforcement Talking

Stopping Killer Robots: Why and How

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What are Killer Robots? What are the laws around LAWS (Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems)?

In this episode, we spoke with Rianna Nayee, a Campaigns & Policy Officer at UNA-UK, a group which works on UN reform and specifically LAWS.

Organisations Mentioned in the episode: 

  • UNA-UK: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.una.org.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   
  • UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots website: ⁠https://ukstopkillerrobots.org.uk/⁠

    • Articles mentioned in the episode:

    • The Moral and Legal Imperative to Ban Killer Robots: ⁠https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/08/21/heed-call/moral-and-legal-imperative-ban-killer-robots⁠ 
    • 2023 UN resolution on AWS: ⁠https://ukstopkillerrobots.org.uk/2023/11/07/uk-campaign-to-stop-killer-robots-welcomes-landmark-un-resolution-on-autonomous-weapons-systems/⁠  
    • UK Parliamentary Champions: ⁠https://una.org.uk/parliamentary-champions-action-autonomous-weapons⁠
    • Monitoring AI weapons development: ⁠https://automatedresearch.org/weapons-systems/⁠ 
    • Stop Killer Robots in UK Universities report: ⁠⁠https://una.org.uk/KRUniReport⁠⁠  

      • Taking Action: 

      • ⁠https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/take-action/⁠ 
        • (If you are a UCL Student) UCL Amnesty International Society: ⁠https://studentsunionucl.org/clubs-societies/amnesty-international-society⁠

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