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The United
Nations is set to host talks on the use of autonomous weapons, but those hoping
for a ban on the machines dubbed "killer robots" will be
disappointed, the ambassador leading the discussions said Friday.
More than 100
artificial intelligence entrepreneurs led by Tesla's Elon Musk in August urged
the U.N. to enforce a global ban on fully automated weapons, echoing calls from
activists who have warned the machines will put civilians at enormous risk.
A U.N. disarmament
grouping known as the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will on
Monday begin five days of talks on the issue in Geneva. But anything resembling
a ban, or even a treaty, remains far off, said the Indian ambassador on
disarmament, Amandeep Gill, who is chairing the meeting.
"It would
be very easy to just legislate a ban but I think ... rushing ahead in a very
complex subject is not wise," he told reporters. "We are just at the
starting line." He said the discussion, which will also include civil
society and technology companies, will be partly focused on understanding the
types of weapons in the pipeline.
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