Stop Killer Robots

AI military systems are spreading fast:
🇺🇸 Sensor-to-shooter chains
🇩🇪 Bio-robotics & microdrones
🇹🇷 Armed quadrupeds
🇨🇳 Loitering munitions, anti-UAS lasers
But accountability is still lagging behind.

Read more in our latest #news briefing: automatedresearch.org/news/news-br...

Does your local representative want to #StopKillerRobots? 🏛️🤖

Parliamentarians around the world are calling for new international law to regulate and ban autonomy in weapons systems.

✍️ Use our template letter to ask your to sign our Parliamentary Pledge: www.stopkillerrobots.org/take-action/...

Together, we can #StopKillerRobots.

As we see more and more decisions on the battlefield delegated to machines, urgent regulation is needed now more than ever.

Take action. Sign our petition. 👇
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Stop Killer Robots Governments and companies are rapidly developing weapons systems with increasing autonomy using new technology and artificial intelligence. These ‘killer robots’ could be used in conflict zones, by po...

Hoe you can #StopKillerRobots ⤵️
✅ Sign our petition: act.stopkillerrobots.org/stop-killer-...
✅ Become a member organisation: www.stopkillerrobots.org/a-global-pus...
✅Join our Youth Network: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Watch to hear from members of our campaign including @ishbhila.bsky.social, @lauravarella.bsky.social, Pia Devoto, Richard Moyes, and others who unpack the legal, ethical, and political consequences of delegating life-and-death decisions to machines.

YouTube video by Human Security Unit | Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Autonomous Weapon Systems, International Law and Global Majority

🎯 "Autonomous weapons are not emerging in a vacuum, they are borne of existing structures of inequality, and risk reinforcing systemic injustice under the guise of innovation and militarised notions of security."

@boellstiftungrlp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_M0...

Read this and more in our latest issue of the fortnightly news briefing from @automateddecision.bsky.social our research and monitoring team automatedresearch.org/news/news-br...

Killer algorithms: When code becomes a tool of extermination In the third decade of the 21st century, artificial intelligence is no longer just an auxiliary tool in our daily lives—it has become a central actor...

‘What happens if rival algorithms clash on the battlefield? Could a war erupt due to a computational error?" #KillerRobots

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Read more in the briefing from our research and monitoring team Automated Decision Research @automateddecision.bsky.social
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Russia field-testing new AI drone powered by Nvidia's Jetson Orin supercomputer Russia is using the self-piloting abilities of AI in its new MS001 drone that is currently being field-tested. Ukrainian Major General Vladyslav Klochkov wrote in a LinkedIn...

"It is a digital predator."

The MS001 AI drone "is able to see, analyze, decide, and strike without external command."
Russia field-testing this new drone is another reason why states to act now to create new regulations on #AutonomousWeapons.

www.techspot.com/news/108579-...

#French campaigner @asimpere.bsky.social spoke about #AutonomousWeapons on @mediapart.fr's "Retex" program, dedicated to military issues, examines the dangers that lie ahead.

🆕 Get up to speed on the latest with #AutonomousWeapons, biometric surveillance and more ⤵️
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🗞️ For the latest on autonomy in weapons systems, biometric surveillance, facial recognition and more, read this story and more in the latest #news briefing by @automateddecision.bsky.social
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Can a self-driving car become a weapon? 🚗🤖

Today’s autonomous fleets—Waymo, Zoox, Tesla—collect GPS, biometric and payment data that could be hacked or spoofed, turning robotaxi networks into weapons.

➡️ Read this story from our latest #news briefing: www.hindustantimes.com/science/seei...

Read this story and more in the latest #News briefing from our research and monitoring team @automateddecision.bsky.social

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New ICE mobile app pushes biometric policing onto American streets | Biometric Update Designed for ICE field agents, the Mobile Fortify app enables real-time biometric identity verification using facial recognition or contactless fingerprints.

By shifting biometric verification from fixed checkpoints to city streets, this AI-driven app enables on-the-spot immigration decisions without warrants or human double-checks. #ICE #Immigration

www.biometricupdate.com/202506/new-i...

Autonomy is no longer a distant military aspiration; it is landing on today’s battlefields:
🕸️ Ukraine's “Operation Spiderweb”
🇮🇳 India field-testing an AI machine-gun that can reportedly identify and track targets as well as function in “autonomous mode”

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In day to day life we know that marketing claims are often exaggerated. In the defense domain it is not yet intuitive to policy makers or government decision makers that military tech CEOs are not necessarily military or geopolitical experts

‘Enabling machines to make life and death decisions is morally unjustifiable’ CIVICUS discusses autonomous weapons systems and the campaign for regulation with Nicole van Rooijen, Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots, a global civil society coalition of over 270 organisatio...

“The implications are staggering. These weapons could operate across all domains – air, land, sea and space – during armed conflicts and law enforcement or border control operations.” #AutonomousWeapons

@nicolevanrooijen.bsky.social

lens.civicus.org/interview/en...

Last year, we were in #Vienna🇦🇹 for the largest conference outside the #UnitedNations on #AutonomousWeapons. Here’s a reminder of what we did there to #StopKillerRobots 👇

YouTube video by United Nations Killer Drones: Can We Stop Autonomous Weapons? | United Nations

"The #AI is still flawed. And yet we’re starting to incorporate it into weapon systems and to incorporate it now when it’s still not functioning properly and when it brings with it the biases of the people who are programming those systems." #KillerRobots

📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqCM...

📣 This June 25, I’ll join Richard Moyes in a powerful dialogue hosted by @fossiltreaty.bsky.social
We’ll share lessons from the @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social campaign on banning autonomous weapons and reshaping global norms.
See you there!
Register here 👇🏾
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#Colombian🇨🇴 campaigners (Campaña Colmbiana Contra Minas) made a new mural in the heart of Bogotá to raise awareness of #AutonomousWeapons and the need to stop them!

🧑‍🎨 Palabreras & Callerjeras

Don’t believe the hype: Unsustainable marketing narratives about autonomous weapons raise urgency… Dr. Elke Schwarz is Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics of…

Read more: stopkillerrobots.medium.com/dont-believe...

Defence companies are making unattainable promises about the effectiveness and safety of #AutonomousWeapons
Don’t believe the hype.

@elkeschwarz.bsky.social
explains why ⤵️

YouTube video by United Nations Killer Drones: Can We Stop Autonomous Weapons? | United Nations

“I doubt that a machine would be able to make the decisions needed to spare civilians and that they could actually make a legal analysis of who is a combatant and who is a civilian in a very short time frame.” #KillerRobots

@nicolevanrooijen.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqCM...

“The computational perspective which underpins #AutonomousWeapons always objectifies its environment. Objectifying human environments means objectifying humans.”

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#StopKillerRobots

Watch this clip and more from our documentary "Immoral Code" which examines whether there are situations where it’s morally and socially acceptable to take life, and importantly – would a computer know the difference?

www.stopkillerrobots.org/take-action/...

#AutonomousWeapons take pre-programmed actions to decide who, what, where and when to strike. All conflicts are different, and it's not necessarily wise to extrapolate from one specific conflict to all future conflicts. Different dynamics and contexts demand different responses.

Through keynote speeches, panel presentations, breakout discussions and Q&A sessions the attendees developed these next steps for addressing #KillerRobots in the Gambia ⬇️