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lethal autonomous weapons system

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Domain Weapons and Weapon Systems
  • relvasüsteem, mis pärast aktiveerimist valib ja hävitab sihtmärgi ilma inimese sekkumiseta
  • a weapon system that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator
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  • This includes human-supervised autonomous weapon systems that are designed to allow human operators to override operation of the weapon system, but can select and engage targets without further human input after activation.
autonoomne surmav relvasüsteem preferred
tapjarobot professional slang
lethal autonomous weapons system preferred
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  • The precise definition of what constitutes such a weapons system remains a matter of debate within CCW (Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons).
LAWS abbreviation
autonomous weapon system admitted
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  • A recent ICRC meeting on the subject defined ‘autonomous weapon system’ as any weapon that can independently select and attack targets, and therefore have autonomy in the ‘critical functions’ of acquiring, tracking, selecting and attacking targets.
  • There is no internationally agreed definition of autonomous weapon systems.
autonomous weapons system admitted
killer robot professional slang
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  • avoid

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