Ban ‘killer robots,’ rights group urges



NEW YORK  - Hollywood-style robots able to shoot people without permission from their human handlers are a real possibility and must be banned before govts start deploying them, Human Rights Watch warned. The report “Losing Humanity” - co-produced by Harvard Law School’s International Human Rights Clinic - also raises the alarm over the ethics of the looming technology. It urges “an international treaty that would absolutely prohibit the development, production, and use of weapons.”

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