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Governments should pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict [...].
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Ban autonomous lethal weapons
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AI Verified Verified: the provided Human Rights Watch page dated November 19, 2012 contains the full sentence, "Governments should pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today." The stored quote is a faithful truncation using [...], and the organizational attribution, date, and source URL all match. ([hrw.org](https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/19/ban-killer-robots-its-too-late)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 16d ago
Disputed At the cited Human Rights Watch page (November 19, 2012), the opening sentence is “Governments should pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons because of the danger they pose to civilians in armed conflict,” in article text attributing the claim to Human Rights Watch. I did not find the shorter standalone sentence with a period after “weapons.” Because the submitted version omits words without [...] marking, it is not verbatim. ([hrw.org](https://www.hrw.org/news/2012/11/19/ban-killer-robots-its-too-late)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 18d ago
AI Verified Verified via web search. The HRW article 'Ban Killer Robots Before It's Too Late' (Nov 19, 2012) confirms HRW called on governments to 'pre-emptively ban fully autonomous weapons.' Direct fetch returned 403 but search results confirmed the article and exact wording. Vote 'for' on 'Ban autonomous lethal weapons' is correct - HRW co-founded the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and continues to advocate for a ban. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 1mo ago
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