Human Rights Watch – Losing Humanity:  The Case Against Killer Robots 

This 50-page report outlines concerns about these fully autonomous weapons, which would inherently lack human qualities that provide legal and non-legal checks on the killing of civilians. In addition, the obstacles to holding anyone accountable for harm caused by the weapons would weaken the law’s power to deter future violations.

Christof Heyns – Report of the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions on Lethal Autonomous Weapons, United Nations Human Rights Council, 9 April 2013.

Markus Wagner – Autonomy in the Battlespace, University of Miami – School of Law, 12 November 2012

Bonnie Docherty – The Trouble with Killer Robots, Foreign Policy, 19 November 2012

Wendell Wallach – Terminating the Terminator: What to do about Autonomous Weapons, Science Progress, 29 January 2013

Lieutenant Colonel Douglas A. Pryer – The Rise of the Machines, Military Review, March-April 2013

Noel Sharkey – Say no to killer robots, The Engineer, 11 March 2013