A major multilateral meeting on "lethal autonomous weapons systems" (LAWS) is taking place in Geneva at present to discuss the legality and moral issues surrounding killer robots.
Being attended by around 117 members of the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), the meeting will discuss the military rationale for pursuing autonomy in specific functions of weapons systems and in what situations are distinctively human traits, such as fear, hate, sense of honour and dignity, compassion and love, desirable in combat. Experts are also deliberating on what situations do machines that lack emotions offer distinct advantages over human combatants?
Britain has already made it clear that it opposes international ban on "killer robots" while Pakistan has vehemently called on the UN to clamp down on killer bots as it would lead to "one-sided killing". Robots that can locate and kill enemies on their own are becoming a reality.
Several nations including the US, UK, South Korea, Russia and Israel are at an advanced stage of developing killer robots.
Pakistan said at the meeting on Tuesday that "In the absence of any human intervention, as is implied by the term 'autonomous', such weapons are by nature unethical - delegating power to machines, which inherently lack any compassion and intuition, to make life and death decisions. LAWS would not distinguish between combatants and non-combatants, they lack morality and judgement. The use of LAWS will make war even more inhumane".
The Pakistani delegation said that states employing LAWS would lower the threshold of going to war, resulting in armed conflict no longer being a measure of last resort, but a recurrent "low-cost" affair instead.
Sri Lanka too opposed killer robots by saying they can escalate the "pace of war and undermine existing arms controls and regulations to aggravate dangers of asymmetric warfare The possibility of having access to LAWS by non-state actors and terrorists or their ability to alter the command of the targets could gravely endanger the security of the world".
The meeting is being chaired by a German diplomat Michael Biontino.
Britain said it does not support a ban on LAWS for the time being "as international humanitarian law already provides sufficient regulation for this area".
UK confirmed it isn't developing killer robots with weapons systems being used under constant armed forces supervision.
Earlier, Michael Moller, acting director-general of the UN told countries that bold action was needed "to take pre-emptive action and ensure that the ultimate decision to end life remains firmly under human control".
One of the examples of killer robots is SGR-A 1 - a military robot designed to police the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea. The all-weather robot fitted with a 5.56 mm automatic machine gun is deadly as it tracks multiple moving targets via infrared sensors and can identify and shoot a target automatically from over two miles away.
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