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Comment by Nicole van Rooijen
Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots, a global coalition campaigning against autonomous weapons
It is evident that the world must act urgently to alter the self-destructive path we are on. An escalating arms race in disruptive technologies like unregulated AI, autonomous weapons, nuclear arms and other dangerous weapons is driving this path. No machine, computer or algorithm can recognise a human as a human being, nor respect humans as inherent bearers of rights and dignity. Enabling machines to make life and death decisions is morally unjustifiable. The cost of our inaction will be greater the longer we wait.
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(2026)
2mo ago
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Quote attributed to Nicole van Rooijen, Executive Director of Stop Killer Robots, about the world needing to act urgently against an arms race in disruptive technologies and "Enabling machines to make life and death decisions is morally unjustifiable." The source URL (stopkillerrobots.org Doomsday Clock announcement) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but web search corroborates: the page is the correct source, and multiple outlets (CIVICUS Lens, IPS News) confirm van Rooijen's statement, including the exact phrase "Enabling machines to make life and death decisions is morally unjustifiable" and her framing of the self-destructive path driven by unregulated AI, autonomous weapons and nuclear arms. Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: as head of Stop Killer Robots she advocates banning these weapons, matching the "for" vote on "Ban autonomous lethal weapons". Year 2026 is current and relevant.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 10d ago
replying to Nicole van Rooijen