Toby Walsh on Ban autonomous lethal weapons

Toby Walsh

Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence

We must add autonomous weapons to the list of weapons that are morally unacceptable to use.

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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AI Verified The quote clearly condemns autonomous weapons as morally unacceptable to use, which implies support for prohibiting them; that includes support for banning autonomous lethal weapons as a subset. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified The quote says autonomous weapons "must" be added to the list of weapons "morally unacceptable to use," which clearly supports banning them. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

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AI Verified The source URL’s UNSW article, “Dear Prime Minister: We’d like you to join the call for a ban on killer robots,” is published on 07 Nov 2017 and credited to Toby Walsh. It contains the exact sentence, “We must add autonomous weapons to the list of weapons that are morally unacceptable to use.” That confirms the quote is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed. ([unsw.edu.au](https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2017/11/dear-prime-minister--wed-like-you-to-join-the-call-for-a-ban-on-)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4mo ago

AI Verified Verified: Quote text matches verbatim with Toby Walsh's November 2017 open letter / UNSW newsroom article calling on Australian PM to support a ban on autonomous weapons. The exact phrasing "We must add autonomous weapons to the list of weapons that are morally unacceptable to use" appears in confirmed reporting. URL is the legitimate UNSW newsroom page. The Conversation also republished the article. Vote "for" on "Ban autonomous lethal weapons" perfectly aligns with Walsh's documented position as one of Australia's most prominent AI researchers advocating for a ban. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 6mo ago

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