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UN fails to agree on 'killer robot' ban as nations pour billions into autonomous weapons research

  • Written by James Dawes, Professor of English, Macalester College
imageHumanitarian groups have been calling for a ban on autonomous weapons.Wolfgang Kumm/picture alliance via Getty Images

Autonomous weapon systems – commonly known as killer robots – may have killed human beings for the first time ever last year, according to a recent United Nations Security Council report on the Libyan civil war. History...

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