This is episode 3 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Jody Williams has been a humanitarian campaigner for most of her adult life. In 1991 she began coordinating the successful Campaign to Ban Landmines and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997. But she didn’t […] Continue Reading

  This is episode 2 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Steve Goose has been heavily involved in the prohibition of three nasty weapons systems. In this podcast he tells us about the discussions at the CCW are panning out and compares the pace with previous […] Continue Reading

  This is episode 1 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. In this episode, after a general introduction explaining the Concentional on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons, your host, Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, interviews Michael Meier, the head of the United […] Continue Reading

Today sees the launch of the official ICRAC Podcast series. The first couple of episodes were recorded at the Convention on Conventional Weapons meeting of experts hosted at the United Nations in Geneva between April 13 and 17 2015. This was a discussion of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS), the CCW term for ‘Killer Robots’. […] Continue Reading

On April 17th, ICRAC’s Dr. Matthew Bolton delivered the following closing statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. ICRAC Closing Statement to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Informal Meeting of Experts at the United Nations in Geneva Thank you Mr. Chairperson, Distinguished Delegates, The International Committee for Robot Arms Control […] Continue Reading

On Thursday April 16, ICRAC’s Dr. Peter Asaro delivered the following statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva: Thank you Mr. Chair. In response to China’s question, a number of security experts have pointed to the danger of mass attack by conventional weapons on strategically important installations.  Autonomous weapons would […] Continue Reading

On Thursday April 16, ICRAC’s Dr. Guglielmo Tamburrini delivered the following statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. I wish to thank on behalf of ICRAC the Chair of the CCW expert meeting for setting up and coordinating such a rich and informative program of expert contributions on technical, ethical, […] Continue Reading

On Wednesday April 15, ICRAC’s Dr. Juergen Altmann delivered the following statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva on Panel Challenges to IHL due to increasing degrees of autonomy. Statement from the International Committee for Robot Arms Control: On Panel Challenges to IHL due to increasing degrees of autonomy. This discussion […] Continue Reading

On Monday April 13, ICRAC guest Dr. Mark A. Gubrud delivered the following statement to the informal meeting of experts at the United Nations in Geneva. International Committee for Robot Arms Control opening statement to the Convention on Conventional Weapons Meeting of Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems, United Nations Geneva 13 April 2015 I am […] Continue Reading

Next week nation states from around the world will meet at the United Nations in Geneva to discuss the problems raised by Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS): weapons that once activated will select targets and attack them with violent force without the benefits of human control. The Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons will host this […] Continue Reading