HRW: autonomous weapons should be banned by international convention

[JURIST] Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] released a report [report, PDF] on Monday finding that the use of fully autonomous weapons by militaries or law enforcement would be an affront to basic human rights and should be preemptively banned by international convention. The report, entitled "Shaking the Foundations: The Human Rights Implications of Killer Robots," was jointly authored [Al Jazeera report] by HRW and Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic [university website]. It questions the ability of autonomous...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/05/hrw-autonomous-weapons-should-be-banned-by-international-convention.php

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