UN Chief Guterres calls for ban on ‘killer robots’

When you first became Secretary General I remember you mentioning killer robots when you were talking to reporters and some of them laughed and thought that you were talking about science fiction. Now we see drones on the battlefield in Ukraine and Russia and dire warnings that AI will kill us all. What's your assessment as the Secretary General, previously with a scientific background, of AI? How transformative and how dangerous? Killer robots should be forbidden. I don't accept the idea that a machine can decide on the life or death of people. Decisions related to the life or death of people need to be taken by humans. And I will remind you of one moment in history. There was one moment in which there was some kind of mistake in the Russian system of detecting missiles coming and there was an order given to one soldier to launch a nuclear missile against the United States and he decided not to do it. If that was managed by artificial intelligence we would not be alive today. The central question is those countries that have capacities that are in the frontier of the AI need to talk to each other, need to come together.