An updated US policy on AI-enhanced weapons that kill without meaningful human intervention, growing mainstream expert support for a Ukraine-Russia peace process, and calls to end the silence over Israel’s “descent of democracy” are all topics in this week’s blog post.
With the untold risks inherent in military drone swarms, Canada must ratchet up efforts to ban killer robots and better regulate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for military purposes.
From pandemic prevention to the final demise of the Open Skies Treaty, to the role that Canada should be playing in securing a ban on killer robots and on weapons in space, find out more in today’s blog.
Three new Liberal campaign promises will strengthen Canada’s contribution to international peace and security if and only if they are actually fully implemented.
Amanda Connolly, writing for iPolitics, discusses the potentially disturbing implications of so-called “killer robots” for modern warfare (“‘Killer robots’ could spark violence against Canadians, change global power balances: DND,” iPolitics, 19 July 2015). One of the main arguments used by those supporting the development of lethal autonomous weapons — “killer robots”, to use the popular […]