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| The Taranis, names after the Celtic god of thunder, is a British military drone prototype (Keystone) |
by Frédéric Burnand in Geneva, swissinfo.ch, 20 May 2013
The intensive use of drones by the Obama administration is feeding a wave of protest and criticism which reaches Geneva next week when a coalition of NGOs will call for a halt to the race to build technology for autonomous killing robots.
The increasing robotisation of military hardware is a new and worrying development that the defenders of human rights and guardians of the Geneva Conventions are attempting to curb. Campaigners are talking two distinct approaches.
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