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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 The quote directly addresses autonomous armed/lethal robots as a class and argues against preventing or banning them, saying they will exist and should instead be made ethical. That is a clear position on the full statement. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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AI Verified Verified. The IEEE Spectrum page for Evan Ackerman’s article, published July 28, 2015, contains the exact wording as the article’s subheadline, and the body repeats the same thought with only an added “then” (“What we really need, then, is ...”), so the submitted quote is real and correctly attributed to Ackerman. ([spectrum.ieee.org](https://spectrum.ieee.org/we-should-not-ban-killer-robots)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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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