Human Rights Watch Preemptive Ban on Autonomous Weapons ? An invitation to cheating?

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Human Rights Watch has prepared a Preemptive Ban on Autonomous Weapons.

There are too many as yet unanswered questions. If a fully autonomous weapon (FAW) kills civilians / non-combatants, who is liable?

More fundamentally:

Can any State (including the U.S.) with a pretense of human rights put machines in charge of life & death decisions over humans?

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If the U.N. imposed limits on such weapons, law abiding nations might do without, thus ceding potential battlefield advantage to the nations that ignored the treaty.

What's the right balance between national defense, and Human Rights Watch concerns?

 

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I would be completely against the use of autonomous weapons. The human factor should not be removed from such a major decision. If an autonomous weapon does kill, it is the responsibility of the entity that put it into operation.