The United Nations’s chief wants humanity to forbid killer robots. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called Monday for lethal autonomous weapons to be “banned by international law,” resurfacing an AI-safety dispute that was core to Anthropic’s schism with the Pentagon earlier this year. “Machines selecting and engaging their target and taking a life—without human control and judgment. That is morally repugnant,” Guterres said in a speech about AI governance in Geneva. “Let us call them what they are: killer robots.” Artificial-intelligence systems and chips designed for civilian use are increasingly being deployed both on the battlefield and in military headquarters. That is setting up a debate over when military forces should use AI, when humans should intercede and who should decide where to draw the lines.

Full report : UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls for autonomous “killer robots” to be “banned by international law”, a central issue in the US DOD-Anthropic clash.