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Statement on Ethical Considerations in Open Informal Meeting at UNGA 1st Committee
ByPeter Asaro May 13, 2025June 23, 2025

UNGA Informals on LAWS ICRAC Statement on Ethical Considerations Delivered by Prof. Peter Asaro on May 13, 2025 Thank you, Chair. I speak on behalf of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, or ICRAC, a group of academics, experts, scholars and researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, robotics, international law, political science, philosophy and…

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Statement on Technical Considerations in Open Informal Meeting at UNGA 1st Committee
ByPeter Asaro May 13, 2025June 23, 2025

UNGA LAWS Informals ICRAC Statement on Technical Considerations Delivered by Prof. Peter Asaro, 13 May 2025 Thank you Chair. I speak on behalf of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, or ICRAC, a co-founding member of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign. ICRAC has many concerns about the development and use of autonomous weapons and…

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Statement on Security in Open informal consultations at UN GA
ByLaura Nolan May 13, 2025June 9, 2025

Statement on Security in “Open informal consultations on lethal autonomous weapons systems held in accordance with General Assembly resolution 79/62, 12-13 May 2025”. Thank you Chair, Presenters, Delegates, My name is Dr. Matthew Breay Bolton, I am Co-Director of Pace University’s International Disarmament Institute and a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control…

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ICRAC submission to the United Nations Secretary General on “AI in the Military Domain and its Implications for International Peace and Security”
ByLaura Nolan April 11, 2025April 15, 2025

11 April 2025 The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) values the opportunity to submit our views to the United Nations Secretary-General in response to Resolution A/RES/79/239 “Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security.” Founded in 2009, ICRAC is a civil society organization of experts in artificial…

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ICRAC Submission to the United Nations Secretary-General on Autonomous Weapon Systems
ByLaura Nolan May 20, 2024April 28, 2025

The International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) values the opportunity to submit its perspectives and recommendations to be considered by the United Nations Secretary General with respect to Resolution 78/241 on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (adopted in December 2023). Founded in 2009, ICRAC is an international committee of experts in robotics technology, artificial intelligence,…

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New Book Shows Catastrophic Folly of Automating Warfare
Bymbolton September 20, 2020April 28, 2025

Despite the challenges of COVID-19, 21-25 September the world’s governments will discuss at the UN in Geneva the humanitarian and security threat posed by “lethal autonomous weapons systems” – high-tech killer robots that could target people without meaningful human control over the use of violence. But despite the media clichés that often accompany these discussions…

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ICRAC Releases New Report on Meaningful Human Control
ByPeter Asaro August 20, 2019August 20, 2019

ICRAC Members Daniele Amoroso and Guglielmo Taburrini have completed a new ICRAC Working paper #4 on “What makes human control over weapons “Meaningful”? The paper was prepared for distribution at the August 2019 meeting of the United Nations CCW GGE on Lethal Autonomous Weapons. The paper can be downloaded from our Resources Page, along with…

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ICRAC Statement at Informal Consultations of the August 2019 CCW GGE on LAWS
ByPeter Asaro August 20, 2019June 22, 2025

Statement delivered by ICRAC Vice-chair Peter Asaro to the CCW GGE Informal Session on the Chair’s Non-Paper, August 19, 2019. “The International Committee for Robot Arms Control, which is a member of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, would like to thank the Chair for this Draft, and make the following comments and requests. First…

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Acto de campaña con Jody Williams en Barcelona
ByJoaquin Rodriguez April 8, 2019April 8, 2019

El próximo Viernes día 12 de Abril a las 16:30h celebraremos en compañía de Jody Williams, premio Nobel de la Paz 1997, y presidenta de la Iniciativa de mujeres Nobel desde 2006, un acto enmarcado en la campaña Stop Killer Robots en el que además participaran los miembros del ICRAC, la Dra Roser Martinez Quirante…

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ICRAC statement at the March 2019 CCW GGE
ByPeter Asaro March 26, 2019June 23, 2025

As delivered by Prof. Peter Asaro, March 26, 2019. ICRAC has been pleased to hear states shift their focus away from definitions of the technologies of autonomous weapons systems and move towards discussing restriction of their use with regards to how they should be controlled. Of course, by definition, if states wanted genuine meaningful human…

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