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Autonomous Weapons Are Here to Stay

Today, civil society vehemently opposes autonomous weapons and characterizes them as inhumane because they are weapons that can apply lethal force to targets without human intervention, which many see as a gross violation of humanitarian law. Nearly every major humanitarian organization has campaigned against autonomous weapons, colloquially known as killer robots. Around the world, prominent scientists, public figures, politicians, and activists have signed numerous letters in protest of autonomous weapons development by states. The humanitarian approach, which frames arms control issues as a humanitarian problem, has picked up momentum and enjoyed recent success in banning “inhumane” weapons. Within the last three decades, great powers have voluntarily removed blinding laser weapons, landmines, and cluster munitions from their arsenals in hopes of making warfare more humane. With autonomous weapons, however, the humanitarian approach has hit a roadblock.