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What are Killer Robots? What are the laws around LAWS (Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems)?

In this episode, we spoke with Rianna Nayee, a Campaigns & Policy Officer at UNA-UK, a group which works on UN reform and specifically LAWS.

Organisations Mentioned in the episode: 

• UNA-UK: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠www.una.org.uk⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠   


• UK Campaign to Stop Killer Robots website: ⁠https://ukstopkillerrobots.org.uk/⁠

Articles mentioned in the episode:

• The Moral and Legal Imperative to Ban Killer Robots: ⁠https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/08/21/heed-call/moral-and-legal-imperative-ban-killer-robots⁠ 


• 2023 UN resolution on AWS: ⁠https://ukstopkillerrobots.org.uk/2023/11/07/uk-campaign-to-stop-killer-robots-welcomes-landmark-un-resolution-on-autonomous-weapons-systems/⁠  


• UK Parliamentary Champions: ⁠https://una.org.uk/parliamentary-champions-action-autonomous-weapons⁠


• Monitoring AI weapons development: ⁠https://automatedresearch.org/weapons-systems/⁠ 


• Stop Killer Robots in UK Universities report: ⁠⁠https://una.org.uk/KRUniReport⁠⁠  

Taking Action: 

• ⁠https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/take-action/⁠ 

• (If you are a UCL Student) UCL Amnesty International Society: ⁠https://studentsunionucl.org/clubs-societies/amnesty-international-society⁠

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