Social media round-ups of the United Nations Meetings on autonomous weapons. Many of these links have been converted to PDFs due to Storify shutting down)

2016 Informal Experts Meeting of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (PDFs from Storify):

• Day One
• Day Two
• Day Three 
• Day Four  
• Day Five

2016 Review Conference of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (PDFs from Storify):

• Day One
• Day Two
• Day Three
• Day Four
• Day Five

2017 Group of Governmental Experts under the Convention on Conventional Weapons (PDFs from Storify):

• Day One
• Day Two
• Day Three
• Day Four
• Day Five and the Meeting of High Contracting Parties

2018 Group of Governmental Experts under the Convention on Conventional Weapons

• April Day One
• April Day Two
• April Day Three
• April Day Four
• April Day Five

 

 

Early publications:

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