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PostSubject: Curbs on statist war robots urged   Curbs on statist war robots urged Icon_minitimeSun Sep 19, 2010 5:30 am
The rapid proliferation of military drone planes and armed robots should be subject to international legal controls, conferences in London and Berlin will argue this month.

Public awareness of attacks by unmanned aerial vehicles, such as Reapers and Predators, in Afghanistan and Pakistan has grown but less is known of unmanned ground vehicles.

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Two conferences - today's Drone Wars in London and a three-day workshop organised by the International Committee for Robot Arms Control in Berlin beginning on Monday - will hear calls for bans and for tighter regulation under international arms treaties.

The development of what is known as ''autonomous targeting'' - where unmanned planes and military ground vehicles are engineered to lock automatically on to what their onboard computers assume is the enemy - has heightened concern.

Research to enable unmanned aerial and ground vehicles to work collaboratively is under way, ensuring each machine selects a different target.

This has reinforced fears that unmanned aerial vehicle strikes wherever future wars are fought will increase death tolls.

Defence equipment manufacturers insist there is always ''a man in the [control] loop'' to authorise operations and they are far less indiscriminate than the high level air force saturation bombing that occurred in World War II.

Noel Sharkey, a professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at Sheffield University, said: ''Our biggest concern … is autonomous systems that [select] targets themselves.''

David Webb, a professor of engineering at Leeds Metropolitan University, said: ''If they kill somebody by mistake do you put the robot on trial?''

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