Lords committee urges caution on UK use of autonomous weapons

Published on December 1, 2023



The UK government must “proceed with caution” when developing and deploying artificial intelligence (AI) for military purposes, particularly autonomous weapons systems (AWS), a House of Lords committee has said.

AWS, also known as lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), are weapons systems which can select, detect and engage targets with little or no human intervention.

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