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On Saturday, 5 September, around 3am, the #CCWUN GGE adopted by consensus the “elements of an instrument” on #AutonomousWeapons. Now they must make that instrument a reality. www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/nothing... /1

youtube.comOur Last Chance to Stop AI Weapons | Will We Let AI Kill People? | Full DocumentaryYouTube video by Lex International

🎬 We’re happy to have been involved in "Will We Let AI Kill People?," a new film by Lex International exploring the urgent need to regulate #AutonomousWeapons. It’s more urgent than ever to launch negotiations on a treaty to #StopKillerRobots. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLIT...

soundcloud.comDrive Time Show Podcast 02-10-2026: Autonomous Weapons and Non violent means of conflict resolutionJoin our hosts for Fridays show from 4-6pm where we will discuss "Autonomous Weapons" and "Non violent means of conflict resolution" Autonomous Weapons: When Machines Decide Who Lives or Dies

Our Head of Policy Elizabeth discusses autonomous weapons and meaningful human control in a recent Voice of Islam programme. 🎧 Listen from 37:05: on.soundcloud.com/gTGZ6SuTLsus... The programme also features @hrw.org’s Bonnie Docherty and @icrc.org’s Jonathan Horowitz.

When AI informs decisions about who lives and dies, what happens to human control? Meaningful human control requires genuine judgement, scrutiny and accountability — not a human rubber-stamping an algorithm. This November, states must launch negotiations on #AutonomousWeapons. lnkd.in/edfTNu4k

bradblog.comU.S., Russia Collude to Weaken U.N Treaty on Use of Autonomous AI ‘Killer Robot’ WeaponryGuest: Verity Coyle of Human Rights Watch; Also: Terror aboard Israel-bound plane; Trump, AI CEOs sign meaningless self-policing agreement at White House...

“130 governments around the world that support... [an autonomous weapons] treaty...we will be doing everything we can do encourage states to take what really is the next sensible step in this process, before we do end up in those doomsday scenarios.” —@verityc.bsky.social bradblog.com?p=19404

From António Guterres to leaders and officials from Mexico, Greece, Barbados, Ukraine, and beyond, governments and UN officials highlighted concerns about #AutonomousWeapons, human control and the need for international law. Swipe through for key quotes from the week. 🧵 #KillerRobots #UNGA

washingtonpost.comU.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pactThe two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...

"More civilian harm, less accountability and a faster slide into riskier, automated warfare.” That's what's at stake if states do not move toward a treaty to #StopKillerRobots at November's CCW Review Conference www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... #AutonomousWeapons

youtube.com🇦🇹 Austria - Federal Minister Addresses United Nations General Debate, 81st Session | #UNGAYouTube video by United Nations

“[A machine] must never have the final say over who lives and who dies.” Austria’s Foreign Minister warned the UN that increasingly #AutonomousWeapons are already being used on the battlefield. Governments must ensure humans — not machines — remain in control. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mqo...

sfgate.comThis SF startup's advanced stalking drone is meant to keep you safeA terrifying video shows an AI-piloted drone that can stalk someone.

“[AI is] being used to target real people, real ships and real schools, that’s a real problem today.” #StopKillerRobots' Peter Asaro spoke to @sfgate.com about AI-enabled surveillance, the growing accessibility of dangerous tech, and why regulation needs to catch up. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

google.comKiller AI is already here—we’re using it in IranDespite AI fears, a new poll shows few Americans know about the Pentagon's AI-assisted massacres.

"[AI is] making lethal recommendations, which don’t appear to receive enough human oversight to prevent atrocities." States must act now and create legal safeguards to #StopKillerRobots www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

aljazeera.comUN Chief Guterres calls for ban on ‘killer robots’In this episode of On the Record, UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for ban on autonomous ‘killer robots’.

22 Sept

"Killer Robots should be forbidden. I don't accept the idea that a machine can decide on the life or death of people." —‚ #UnitedNations Secretary General Antonio Guterres We need a treaty to regulate #AutonomousWeapons now. #StopKillerRobots www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

21 Sept

🕊️ This International Day of Peace, people around the world are calling for meaningful human control over decisions about the use of force. Different languages. Different voices. One message: Less autonomy. More humanity. #InternationalDayOfPeace #StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons

17 Sept

⬇️ Read @rcw4disarmament.bsky.social's First Committee Briefing book for our entry on #AutonomousWeapons and why states should commit to preserving meaningful human control and urgently start negotiations of a legally binding instrument to #StopKillerRobots reachingcriticalwill.org/images/docum...

Reaching Critical Will@rcw4disarmament.bsky.social

The #FirstCommittee Briefing Book is out! 🗞️ The new edition provides background information and contains recommendations from civil society coalitions to states. Read it and get ready for a busy disarmament month! 💪 www.reachingcriticalwill.org/resources/pu...

One year after Stop Killer Robots and Etica Funds launched our Investor Statement on autonomous weapons, we brought leading investors into the room at Geneva during the #CCW to discuss what unregulated autonomy in weapons means for the financial sector.

Thanks to Aldo Bonati, Camille Bisconte de Saint Julien, Sam Jones, Claire Gavini-Jean and moderator Roos Boer for a thoughtful conversation.

Investors have a role to play in shaping the future of #AutonomousWeapons. ➡️ The first step is signing our Investor Statement: www.stopkillerrobots.org/investor-sta... #StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #AI

We discussed investor red lines, dual-use technologies, due diligence — and why a strong international treaty is the missing piece. A clear, enforceable global rulebook would give investors the standards they need to manage risk and avoid complicity in unlawful harm.

The political momentum towards a treaty is undeniable. More than 70 states have backed moving to negotiations on an autonomous weapons instrument based on the adopted elements. /8

States must turn years of discussion into binding rules that safeguard humanity, uphold meaningful human control and ensure compliance with international laws. Time is running out, States must act now. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /9

Machines must never decide who lives or dies. Yet the anti-personnel prohibitions were absent from the debate. Stronger legal safeguards against digital dehumanisation and automated harm are essential. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /6

The GGE has concluded its work. Now states must continue their commitment towards achieving a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Stop Killer Robots urges states to launch negotiations in November at the 7th CCW review conference. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /7

The elements adopted are not enough to provide a comprehensive response to the ethical, humanitarian, legal and security challenges of autonomous weapons. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /4

The current text only applies in armed conflict, the provisions are vague and they do not include key concepts such as ‘predictability’, ‘reliability’, ‘explainability’ and ‘traceability’. They still allow autonomous weapons to identify and kill human beings. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /5

With elements of an instrument agreed, This could be a significant step for international law and the protection of civilians in conflict - if states can turn these elements into a legal treaty and strengthen certain elements during negotiations. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /2

Regrettably, after three years of painstaking work, important elements of the draft instrument were deleted in the final hours, as highly militarised states pushed their interests over humanitarian protections. #CCWUN #AutonomousWeapons /3

4 Sept

Today's decisions will shape the future young people inherit. Our #Youth Delegates were in Geneva this week for UN discussuons on #AutonomousWeapons. Here's what they had to say about their experience — and why young voices belong in these conversations. #StopKillerRobots #AutonomousWeapons #CCWUN

theconversation.comAutonomous weapons can select targets without human help – now is the time for binding rulesOfficials are meeting in Geneva to negotiate urgent controls on autonomous weapons.

4 Sept

"Clear, binding rules would help ensure that increasingly #AutonomousWarfare does not make violence easier to unleash and harder to control." ❗A key message to states as the #CCWUN in Geneva concludes today. @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @jessicadorsey.bsky.social theconversation.com/autonomous-w...

3 Sept

Thank you to everyone who joined our Geneva side event on #AutonomousWeapons! 🤝🇺🇳 On Monday, we explored the humanitarian, human rights and children’s rights — concerns that must feature more in international discussions. These must be at the centre of a treaty to #StopKillerRobots

16 June

⚠️ Digital dehumanisation is not an abstract concern - it's happening right now in conflicts around the world. Handing targeting decisions to machines strips people of their humanity. Victims are reduced to data points, while survivors have no one to hold accountable.

@minesactioncan.bsky.social

16 June

This week at the informal exchanges on AI in the military at the UN 🇺🇳, our campaigners are calling on states to act urgently to stop and prevent digital dehumanisation and automated harm and ensure meaningful human control over the use of force. 🗣️ Stay tuned for updates from campaigners in Geneva

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Mines Action Canada

10 June

If you are curious about how things are going on autonomous weapons in Canada have a listen to this podcast featuring our friend and frequent collaborator Dr. Jason Millar! www.canadaland.com/podcast/185-... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

canadaland.com#185 Ottawa’s Killer Robot ProblemHost Sam spent a day at Canada's biggest defence trade show asking about autonomous weapons.

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Drone Wars UK

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11 June

Seriously concerning in this context: "To enable rapid development, the taskforce has exemptions from standard financial and procedural controls." @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

Drone Wars UK@dronewarsuk.bsky.social

UK MoD announces Rapid AI Delivery taskforce (Taskforce RAID) to accelerate the delivery of the AI capabilities to Armed Forces. www.gov.uk/government/n...

gov.ukNew taskforce to put AI on the UK's frontlineThe Rapid AI Delivery Taskforce is a new unit set up to get AI-enabled technology and tools into the hand of Britain's Armed Forces to prepare the UK for the future of warfare.

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Forum on the Arms Trade

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15 June

🎬 ICYMI: The next episode of “Ask the Arms Experts” delves into AI, with Branka Marijan 🤖 @ploughsharesca.bsky.social @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social See the full interview at the link below: youtu.be/MBwwbOOlSos?...

euperspectives.euThe EU has a killer robots rule. The world does not - EU PerspectivesThe EU bans killer robot funding. But in Gaza and Ukraine, AI already selects targets. Global rules do not yet exist.

1 June

“Our main concern is that this is happening before specific rules are in place to make sure there is always meaningful human control in the use of force and life and death decisions aren’t delegated to machines” – @elizabethminor.bsky.social euperspectives.eu/2026/06/the-...

theverge.comAI warfare is already hereEven Anthropic seems to think its red lines won’t hold for long.

28 May

"If humans are just rubber-stamping decisions, what are the lines of accountability there — and what does the liability look like?” #Autonomousweapons #StopKillerRobots campaigner @brankamarijan.bsky.social in @theverge.com www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

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Elke Schwarz

@elkeschwarz.bsky.social

25 May

Preach! Glad to see that the pope is speaking our language ... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1231...

ft.comPope Leo says AI ‘needs to be disarmed’Pontiff warns of dangers of a technological revolution driven by ‘the idolatry of profit’

27 May

The need to safeguard humanity from dehumanising technology that, as #PopeLeo rightly identified, “reduc[e] victims to data”, is needed now, more than ever. Read our #PressRelease: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/respons...

27 May

"The rise of unregulated AI and autonomy in warfare in ongoing conflicts have been used to devastating humanitarian effects." – our Executive Director @nicolevanrooijen.bsky.social #PopeLeo

independentonsaturday.co.zaSouth Africa's AI Policy: Now is the Time to Raise Our ConcernsMinister Solly Malatsi's withdrawal of South Africa's Draft National AI Policy raises critical questions about the integrity of policymaking in the digital age. As concerns about AI regulation mount, ...

“This issue extends beyond conflict. Technologies used on the battlefield are often transferred to policing and border management, making anyone a potential victim of automated harm.” #AutonomousWeapons independentonsaturday.co.za/technology/o...

To learn more about why African states should #StopKillerRobots, read our regional briefing for African states www.stopkillerrobots.org/resource/reg...

"We can't solve the harms of military AI using the same systems that created them. We need approaches that center marginalized voices and rethink how decisions are made." — @giselalujan.bsky.social #StopKillerRobots stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/whats-deco...

Gisela Luján Andrade ( @giselalujan.bsky.social) and Jennifer Menninger sat down to speak with us about the importance of decolonial #Feminism in campaigner's work to #StopKillerRobots.

stopkillerrobots.substack.comWhat's decolonial feminism got to do with it?A conversation with campaigners advancing the fight to #StopKillerRobots to create a world that is equitable and free of automated harm.

🗣️ Read their interview: stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/whats-deco...

6 May

“Younger generations have grown up in a digital era, which gives us a unique and valuable perspective on the benefits and challenges of emerging technologies." - Lauren Barnard, youth campaigner Read about her first UN Meeting on #AutonomousWeapons stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/talking-to...