India, June 2 -- The UN and a group of non-governmental organisations are calling for international law to regulate AI-driven drones that are reshaping warfare and raising deep ethical questions about autonomy in combat.
As international policymakers scramble to set ground rules, pressure mounts to draft an international regulation of Lethal Autonomous Weapons, or LAWS.
The UN Office for Disarmament Affairs; Human Rights Watch; and Stop Killer Robots, a coalition campaigning for a new international law on autonomy in weapons systems, said a new regulation is necessary to avoid a near-future where machines dictate life-and-death choices.
For several months, the Kherson region of Ukraine has come under sustained attack from weaponized dron...