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Coalition to ban killer robots

agree to start negotiating a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons,

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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AI Verified The quote clearly supports pursuing a ban on fully autonomous weapons by calling for negotiations on a preemptive ban. That directly implies support for banning autonomous lethal weapons, even though it is framed as starting negotiations. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The quote supports the statement by urging to "start negotiating a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons," which indicates backing for a ban. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

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AI Verified The exact words "agree to start negotiating a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons," appear in the first substantive paragraph of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots press release dated 11 April 2016: “Countries should affirm ... and agree to start negotiating a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons, said the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots ...” This confirms the quote is a verbatim excerpt and is correctly attributed to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. ([stopkillerrobots.org](https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/news/press-release-focus-on-meaningful-human-control-of-weapons-systems-third-united-nations-meeting-on-killer-robots-opens-in-geneva/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3mo ago

AI Verified Stop Killer Robots URL is blocked from WebFetch, but search results confirmed the exact quote text "agree to start negotiating a preemptive ban on fully autonomous weapons" is from the Campaign's April 11, 2016 press release for the third UN meeting on killer robots in Geneva. I corrected the truncated source URL to the full URL. Vote alignment ("for" the statement "Ban autonomous lethal weapons") is correct - this is the founding mission of the coalition. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 5mo ago

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Nations should establish binding international rules for AI safety and governance

Stop Killer Robots believes this text should be negotiated into a legally binding instrument.

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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

to demand meaningful human control, which ensures responsibility and accountability, in any use of force; [...] It is a world that rejects the automation of killing and instead, promotes the principle of human control over emerging technologies that ...

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