⚠️ Digital dehumanisation is not an abstract concern - it's happening right now in conflicts around the world. Handing targeting decisions to machines strips people of their humanity. Victims are reduced to data points, while survivors have no one to hold accountable.

If you are curious about how things are going on autonomous weapons in Canada have a listen to this podcast featuring our friend and frequent collaborator Dr. Jason Millar! www.canadaland.com/podcast/185-... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

Seriously concerning in this context: "To enable rapid development, the taskforce has exemptions from standard financial and procedural controls." @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social

🎬 ICYMI: The next episode of “Ask the Arms Experts” delves into AI, with Branka Marijan 🤖 @ploughsharesca.bsky.social @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social See the full interview at the link below: youtu.be/MBwwbOOlSos?...

“Our main concern is that this is happening before specific rules are in place to make sure there is always meaningful human control in the use of force and life and death decisions aren’t delegated to machines” – @elizabethminor.bsky.social euperspectives.eu/2026/06/the-...

"If humans are just rubber-stamping decisions, what are the lines of accountability there — and what does the liability look like?” #Autonomousweapons #StopKillerRobots campaigner @brankamarijan.bsky.social in @theverge.com www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Preach! Glad to see that the pope is speaking our language ... @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/1231...

The need to safeguard humanity from dehumanising technology that, as #PopeLeo rightly identified, “reduc[e] victims to data”, is needed now, more than ever. Read our #PressRelease: www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/respons...

“This issue extends beyond conflict. Technologies used on the battlefield are often transferred to policing and border management, making anyone a potential victim of automated harm.” #AutonomousWeapons independentonsaturday.co.za/technology/o...

"We can't solve the harms of military AI using the same systems that created them. We need approaches that center marginalized voices and rethink how decisions are made." — @giselalujan.bsky.social #StopKillerRobots stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/whats-deco...

“Younger generations have grown up in a digital era, which gives us a unique and valuable perspective on the benefits and challenges of emerging technologies." - Lauren Barnard, youth campaigner Read about her first UN Meeting on #AutonomousWeapons stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/talking-to...

"Many of the same concerns my colleagues and I had eight years ago are echoed in the recent letter current Google employees sent their CEO Sundar Pichai last week." — Laura Nolan, ex-Google Software Engineer Highlights⬇️ Read Laura's story on our #Substack: www.substack.com/p/the-risks-...

In our latest Substack post, @elkeschwarz.bsky.social explores how defence sector PR monopolises attention while making an argument for the necessity of its #MilitaryAI products. #StopKillerRobots #Manifesto stopkillerrobots.substack.com/p/defence-te...

“The lack of serious guardrails...shows a troubling lack of concern for these real and immediate risks to civilians both in the United States and abroad,” #StopKillerRobots @verityc.bsky.social on the need for new laws on #AutonomousWeapons @commondreams.org www.commondreams.org/news/ai-weap...

If anyone knows what's at stake, it's the people building the tech. #Google #TechWorker #AutonomousWeapons

The letter from hundreds of #Google workers to their CEO cited #AutonomousWeapons as an example of potentially harmful applications of AI. #StopKillerRobots We stand with the workers who believe that #AI should be used to benefit humanity, not harm it. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

🚨 The Forum on the Arms Trade is seeking proposals for a short-term consultancy to revamp its expert pages. Visit the Forum’s “Jobs Corner”, to learn more about this and other professional opportunities: www.forumarmstrade.org/rfpexpertpag...

With growing investment in and development of #AutonomousWeapons a treaty to #StopKillerRobots is needed now more than ever. www.southcom.mil/News/PressRe...

Palantir's recent manifesto is another reason why we need laws to #StopKillerRobots. States must urgently launch treaty negotiations on #AutonomousWeapons at November's RevCon at the UN in Geneva. #AI #Palantir #Manifesto #UnitedNations

“If AI is doing all the data analysis and saying, OK, here’s the target, and you just have a human being saying, OK... What’s happened is just a dependence on these machines.” #MilitaryAI #StopKillerRobots www.commondreams.org/news/artific...

"It's not clear that these systems can do what [militaries] want them to do in a predictable and reliable way." #AutonomousWeapons Our Campaign Chair Peter Asaro spoke with @malwarebytes.com's about autonomous weapons and #MilitaryAI. 🎧 Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...

We're delighted to welcome @nicolevanrooijen.bsky.social @stopkillerrobots.bsky.social to the Forum's expert community list. Learn more about her work at www.forumarmstrade.org/nicole.html

"It's not clear that these systems can do what [militaries] want them to do in a predictable and reliable way." #AutonomousWeapons Our Campaign Chair Peter Asaro spoke with @malwarebytes.com's Lock and Code podcast about autonomous weapons and #MilitaryAI. 🎧 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/k...

"What regulation should look like is relatively straightforward, even if it is hard to enforce. AI systems used in targeting must be explainable – not via probability score but reasoning that a lawyer can audit." #StopKillerRobots www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

"while computer algorithms can process data much faster than humans, speeding up targeting decisions significantly erodes human oversight and accountability, and will inevitably mean more civilian casualties." - @dronewarsuk.bsky.social #StopKillerRobots www.computerweekly.com/news/3666403...

"We are doing no less in this room than defining the role of humans in future warfare, a responsibility that should weigh heavy on everyone." Read our latest briefing paper on the decade of work toward an instrument on #AutonomousWeapons at the #UNCCW 📄: www.stopkillerrobots.org/resource/inf...

We were on the #BBC Radio Ulster yesterday speaking about the legal and ethical issues #AutonomousWeapons pose. Listen to Roos Boer from #StopKillerRobots founding member @paxvoorvrede.nl 🎧 (starts at 1:03:23) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

What’s it like going to UN Meeting on #AutonomousWeapons? Especially as we’re seeing #AI and #automation becoming a greater part of how we live and engage in warfare? 📹 Lauren from our Youth Network shares her experience of joining the #StopKillerRobots delegation at the UN in Geneva 🇺🇳

"This conflict is...about where the line should be drawn for how artificial intelligence (AI) can be used militarily. About who sets the standard, and how." Read this op ed from campaign members Norwegian People's Aid (@npaid.bsky.social) in @dagensnaeringsliv.bsky.social www.dn.no/innlegg/vape...

“many researchers have ethical and moral objections to AI’s use for #autonomousWeapons… #AI models can give inaccurate outputs, and how they reach their conclusions is often opaque.” @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The tug-of-war in the United States highlights precisely the fundamental question that states must agree on: What limitations should we place on weapons systems that are capable of identifying, selecting, and attacking targets on their own, without human intervention? www.dn.no/innlegg/vape...

🍿Join us, New York! Tomorrow at 5:20pm, we’ll be at a screening of new film #DRGN followed by Q&A featuring Isabelle Jones, our Head of Gov't Relations & Advocacy, who speak about the gap between this sci-fi horror and our reality. 🎟️https://angelikafilmcenter.com/villageeast/movies/details/dragn

As states discussed changes to a text that could form the basis of an #AutonomousWeapons treaty, the use of AI targeting in Iran demonstrated that meaningful human control over the use of force is already being weakened to devastating humanitarian effect. www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/reports...

"AI-enabled decision-support systems reduce the separation between recommending and executing a strike to a 'dangerously thin' line and risk introducing automation bias, when humans overly trust outputs produced by machines." www.bloomberg.com/news/article... #StopKillerRobots #MilitaryAI

“AI gets it wrong...We need humans to check the output of generative AI when the stakes are life and death.” The U.S. military is using advanced generative AI to create target lists. Machines should decide who lies and who dies. #StopKillerRobots www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"[Autonomous weapons] are, among other things, moral distance machines. They allow states to industrialize killing while diffusing responsibility...until no individual person feels or can be made to feel that they bear meaningful accountability for a specific death." newrepublic.com/article/2071...

Many thanks to all who attended our #UN side event today. As we near the #CCW Review Conference later this year, it is important to reflect on the 10+ years work of the #UNCCW on #AutonomousWeapons. This forum is crucial need for autonomous weapons regulation becomes increasingly urgent.

🚨 SIDE EVENT + PUBLICATION LAUNCH: join us for today's side event on the progress of the #GGE on LAWS after a decade of work on #AutonomousWeapons and ahead of the November #CCWUN Review Conference later this year where the group's mandate will be reviewed.

We're back in the room for the afternoon session of the #CCWUN meeting on #AutonomousWeapons. Over these first two days of the meeting, we've made a number of statements 🔗 Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1y... ⬇️ Full statements

The current context that the current United Nations meeting on #AutonomousWeapons are taking place in demonstrate that it's time for governments to show leadership and negotiate a treaty to stop the automation of killing. Here's what happened on Day 1 of #CCWUN meeting on #KillerRobots

As states discuss #AutonomousWeapons at the #UN this week, this is what's happening outside the Geneva meeting room: 📌 Increasing reports of weapons with autonomous features being used 📌 Military AI tools linked to serious civilian harm 📌 Pressure on industry to adopt more lax ethical standards

🆕 Our new regional briefings explain the region-specific concerns for #AutonomousWeapons and what states in particular parts of the world have done to work toward a treaty to #StopKillerRobots 👉 www.stopkillerrobots.org/skr-research...

Governments need to launch treaty negotiations to #StopKillerRobots now. This week we’re at the UN Geneva for killer robots discussions to remind states what’s at stake. This action is too important for inaction. Watch live: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v...

Press release! "We are at a pivotal moment for humanity. When the companies building these technologies are themselves refusing to deploy it on safety grounds...” Nicole Van Rooijen, Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots. www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/press-r... #anthropic #LLMS #AI #Pentagon

#AutonomousWeapons are a global issue, but their risks look different across regions. Last week in #Geneva we met with reps from Africa and Latin America & the Caribbean to discuss #regional concerns and the push for international rules to #StopKillerRobots. New regional briefings out now ⬇️

Our Isabelle Jones joins the PodMAPS conversation to explore what’s at stake with #AutonomousWeapons and why the decisions governments make now will shape the future of human control, accountability, and the protection of civilians. 🎧 Spotify: lnkd.in/e3GWswbR 🎧 Apple Podcasts: lnkd.in/eX3WNUMr

"𝙎𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙚𝙭𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙣 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙠𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙜𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝘼𝙄 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙙𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙥." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🇧🇷 In December, campaigners took action at Christ the Redeemer in Rio to deliver a simple message: “Machines should not decide who lives and who dies.” Public actions like this keep human dignity at the centre of the debate on #AutonomousWeapons. #StopKillerRobots

"The #Pentagon's hardball with #Anthropic sets the tone for its negotiations with OpenAI, Google and xAI, all of which have agreed to remove their #safeguards for use in the military's unclassified systems, but are not yet used for more sensitive classified work." www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

"New international laws on autonomous weapon systems are definitely feasible, we just have to take the next step now." – Stop Killer Robots, speaking to @heise.de #REAIM www.heise.de/en/news/Arti...