The world banned landmines and cluster munitions. Can it stop killer AI before it is too late?

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Campaigners race to rein in systems ‘designed to kill’, as autonomous weapons lower the threshold for war and increase civilian harm Throughout the history of war, the machinery of killing has always left room for a human to intervene. A soldier could see the person in front of them and choose to maim rather than kill; a pilot could identify the target, question the intelligence and decide not to strike. Technology has been steadily changing that. Autonomous weapons systems now threaten to remov