Technology Report - A Call to Ban 'Killer Robots'

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VOA Learning English, this is the Technology Report in English. An international rights group has called on world to ban weaponized robots. Human Rights Watch recently released report called, "Losing Humanity: The Case against Killer Robots." warns that fully autonomous weapons systems could increase the to civilians during armed conflicts. Militaries around the world using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, also called drones, more and . The drones gather intelligence, help identify targets, and fire , but only if a human operator gives the order. Rights Watch fears that within 30 years developments in could remove the need for human operators. David Mepham the United Kingdom director of Human Rights Watch. He his group is concerned that robots will not be to tell the difference between civilians and combatants. The States and other militaries have stated they have no to remove human supervision over the decision to use forceHuman Rights Watch says a treaty would help to that this does not happen. The group says a on what it calls "killer robots" would be similar current bans on the use of landmines and cluster experts say that all autonomous technology should be discussed. example, France sent remote-controlled robots to Japan last year help contain the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima power . This was a job that most people would agree better left to machines. For VOA Learning English, I'm Villarreal.

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