UN, Red Cross want bans, curbs on killer robots

Guterres addressing the 78th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York City, on Sept 19, 2023. He and Spoljaric said the development and proliferation of autonomous weapons had the potential to change the way wars are fought and thereby fuel global instability. — Reuters

GENEVA: The United Nations and the Red Cross this week issued a joint call for urgent new international rules to protect humanity from the potential “terrible consequences” of autonomous weapons.

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres and Mirjana Spoljaric, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross, on Thursday said getting to grips with so-called killer robots was a global “humanitarian priority”.