Should autonomous weapons be banned?
Machines that decide who lives and who dies — without a human in the loop. Autonomous weapons could reduce military casualties and make warfare more precise. But they also lower the threshold for conflict, raise nightmare scenarios of hacked kill bots, and force us to ask: should an algorithm ever have the power to take a life?
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