Britain will not support pre-emptive ban on ‘killer robots’, MoD says after experts urge UN to act

‘Britain will not support a pre-emptive ban on ‘killer robots’, the Ministry of Defence has said, despite more than 100 robotics and artificial intelligence experts calling on the United Nations to outlaw development of the machines.
The MoD said existing international law was enough to deal with the spectre of military machines that could one day identify, target and kill without human control.
One leading British robotics academic called on the Government to hold a wholesale review of its policy.
Some of the world’s leading technology luminaries signed an open letter to the UN calling for the ban on autonomous weapons to try to stop an arms race.’
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