JU's Public Policy Institute Hosts Panel on Drone Tech

There is a growing movement, lead by groups like the International Committee for Robot Arms Control and the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, calling for the development of an International Robotic Arms Treaty that specifically denies the ability to weaponize unmanned robotic technology and is compared to other weapons treaties that dealt with laser blinding weapons, mine usage and, of course, nuclear weapons

"Automating warfare is like [making] a clean factory of killing. A sort of slaughter. Where we send in weapons to do all of our killing for us. They Choose the targets. They decide what to do...and it just seems to me morally outrageous to even consider this..." - Prof. Noel Sharkey, International Committee on Robot Arms Control