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IEEE Spectrum robotics senior editor
What we really need is a way of making autonomous armed robots ethical, because we’re not going to be able to prevent them from existing.
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons

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AI Verified Verified via web search. Quote is from Evan Ackerman's 2015 IEEE Spectrum article 'We Should Not Ban Killer Robots, and Here's Why'. Source URL (spectrum.ieee.org) returned 403 to direct fetch, but web search confirmed both the article and exact quote. Ackerman argues against banning autonomous weapons - vote 'against' for statement 'Ban autonomous lethal weapons' is correct. No more recent (2025-2026) quote found from this author on this topic. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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