‘A moral red line’? World on cusp of autonomous weapons revolution

Paris: Lethal autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence are set to revolutionize warfare but there is no proper regulatory or legal framework governing the new technology.

A conference starting Monday at the United Nations in Geneva will discuss how to establish curbs and prohibitions on such weapons, called killer robots by some.

But some analysts doubt the discussions at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will keep pace with the fast-changing weapons.

AFP looks at three key questions ahead of the conference.

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) “can identify, select, and engage a target without the intervention of a human operator in the execution of these tasks,” said Jean-Marc Rickli, head of global and emerging risks at the Geneva Center for Security Policy.