Keep Killer Robots Fiction
Killer Robots have been a fixture of science fiction for decades but now they are becoming a very real possibility.
The Canadian Campaign to Stop Killer Robots works for a ban on fully autonomous weapons (robotic weapons that can choose and fire on targets without any human intervention unlike drones that continue to have a human at the controls from a remote location). We believe that the creation of fully autonomous weapons is a line that should not be crossed. We are calling for a pre-emptive and comprehensive ban on the development, production, and use of fully autonomous weapons. The prohibition should be achieved through Canadian national law and an international treaty.
The Canadian Campaign to Stop Killer Robots has multiple moral, ethical, legal, technical and policy concerns with the prospect of fully autonomous weapons. It believes that humans should not delegate the responsibility of making lethal decisions in conflict to machines. The development of fully autonomous weapons and the associated risks to civilians are an affront to Canadian values of humanitarianism, personal responsibility, peace, order and good governance.
412 SIGNATURESGOAL: 1,000 signaturesI find the idea of machines making life or death decisions in conflict abhorrent. I call on the Government of Canada to immediately prohibit the development and deployment of fully autonomous weapons (killer robots) in Canada and to support efforts to create a pre-emptive global ban on the technology.
Sandra Finley
Sandra Finley signed Keep Killer Robots Fiction
2013-07-09 11:29:41 -0400
I doubt that Canadians are aware of how much more money we are paying every year, to increase our capacity to kill. If there is an ethical way to kill, that is one thing. “Killer robots” are “unmanned aerial vehicles” (remote-control airplanes) that drop bombs on people. We have reached the height of depravity AND stupidity, if we think that investment in killer robots is the way to solve the world’s problems. Come on! tell your friends. Let’s get to work and stop this from being done. We are the ones ultimately responsible – we are the only ones who put up the money to pay for the goods.
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