UN Secretary-General Guterres: Machines Cannot Take Life Away from People” and Call for International Law Ban on “Killer Robots”
The United Nations has called for a full ban on autonomous weapons, so-called “killer robots,” in which AI selects and attacks targets on its own without human intervention. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at the AI Governance Summit in Geneva, Switzerland on the 6th (local time), “It is not human control or judgment that machines choose and attack targets on their own, taking human lives away.”