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The United States and Russia were among a small number of countries that blocked the U.N. from moving toward talks on whether to ban so-called killer robots.<\/p>\n

During a week of meetings in Geneva, which ended in the early hours of Saturday, a group at the United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) discussed whether to take negotiations on fully autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence to a formal level that could lead to a treaty banning them.<\/p>\n

However, a list of non-binding recommendations that participating countries agreed on, seen by POLITICO, dodges the question of whether to move on to formal negotiations.<\/p>\n

Mary Wareham, coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots<\/a>, said that Russia, the U.S., South Korea, Israel and Australia were the main countries opposing the call for action.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts a disappointment, of course, that a small minority of large military powers can hold back the will of the majority,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her group represents 75 non-governmental organizations in 32 countries fighting for a ban on weapons that use AI technology to choose their targets. It says 26 countries endorse a full ban on the weapons.<\/p>\n

Throughout the meeting, many of those countries reiterated their call for strong regulation, pushing for the U.N. to start formal negotiations next year.<\/p>\n

Doing so would be the next step toward binding international rules but opponents of a ban stood firm. The document issued at the end of the meeting recommends that non-binding talks continue.<\/p>\n

\u201cAny one state can block any progress,\u201d Wareham said. \u201cAnd thats whats happened here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Armies and arms manufacturers around the world are testing killer robots<\/a>, which could soon outperform existing military technology at only a fraction of the cost.<\/p>\n

At the end of 2013, the United Nations put the topic on its agenda, but since then little has happened. It has not even been able to agree on a definition of fully autonomous lethal weapons.<\/p>\n

At the same time, experts say, positions around the negotiation table are hardening.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rift between the different positions is getting bigger, talks this week have shown,\u201d said Frank Sauer, an autonomous weapons expert at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich.<\/p>\n

Countries are set to meet again in November in Geneva.<\/p>\n

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