{"299661":{"#nid":"299661","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"It\u2019s Judgment Day for Killer Robots at the United Nations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ronald C. Arkin of the Georgia Institute of Technology, who will be debating the pros and cons of autonomous weapons at the UN meeting, says he is not in favor of an outright ban, arguing that autonomous weapons could, if properly designed, reduce human casualties in war.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArkin told \u003Cem\u003EThe Wall Street Journal\u003C\/em\u003E that systems like these should not be deployed unless they can comply with international humanitarian law. He added that the machines should be able to outperform human combatants from an ethical perspective, with the hope of leading to a reduction in civilian casualties in conflict. \u201cIf that bar cannot be met then they should not be deployed,\u201d he said, adding that he supports a moratorium until such time as that bar can be met. \u201cThe original call for moratoria by the UN Special rapporteur were self imposed. \u0026nbsp;I\u2019m not sure if a ban or anything stronger is enforceable,\u201d Arkin said.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-27 13:24:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:08","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JAG","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2014\/05\/13\/its-judgment-day-for-killer-robots-at-the-united-nations\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-13T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"80771","name":"Ronald Arkin; Ron Arkin; Robots; Killer Robots; Military Technology; Drones; Humanoids; Humanoid Robots; Terminator; Warfare"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}