(Source: PAX) 05-11-2015 It took decades before a ban on cluster bombs came into being. And nuclear weapons still remain an enormous concern. Let's therefore be on time, for once, in preventing machines that are able to autonomously target people, Jan Gruiters and Miriam Struyk wrote in an op-ed published on November 3rd in the Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad. Being part of an organisation that campaigns for a ban on 'killer robots', it was quite a shock for us to read in NRC Handelsblad last Friday that the Dutch army should be able to buy killer robots. However, having read the full interview with former commander of the Dutch armed forces Marcel Urlings and having studied the advice to...
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