Question 15169 — weapons

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Ms. Élisabeth Toutut-Picard draws the attention of the Minister of the Armed Forces to lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Also called “killer robots”, these systems can, once activated, choose and control a target without sufficient human control. While fully autonomous systems have not yet been developed, they could appear in a few years, given advances in robotics and intelligence artificial, The development of SALA raises a large number of legal, moral and security risks. International humanitarian law would risk not being respected, in particular the principles of distinction and proportionality. It would also be very difficult to establish responsibility in the event of a crime. These weapons could finally attack the wrong targets, proliferate, be hacked or diverted. Since 2013, thousands experts in artificial intelligence and robotics, several Nobel Peace Prize winners, religious leaders, dozens of human rights organizations and 26 states have called for their ban. Six specific meetings took place on the subject within the framework of the United Nations and the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). In spring 2018, the President of the Republic and the Government opposed publicly to the development and emergence of killer robots. But France is content, at the international level, to propose the adoption of a simple non-binding political declaration and tends, at the national level, to develop programs (Neuron, FURIOUS, Man Machine Teaming) integrating more and more autonomy for the equipment of its armies. She therefore wishes to obtain clarification on the Government's position and the concrete means taken to prevent these killer robots from emerging. She also wants to know whether he intends to support the adoption of a legally binding preventive ban treaty, as France has done for anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions, and whether he plans to propose national legislation to prevent the production, development and use of autonomous weapons.

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