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Every day, we read of shootings, inequality, pollution, dictatorship, war and the spread of nuclear weapons.

Last year, the world had 12 ongoing wars, 60 autocracies, 10 percent of the world population in extreme poverty and more than 10,000 nuclear weapons.

But 30 years ago, there were 23 wars, 85 autocracies, 37 percent of the world population in extreme poverty and more than 60,000 nuclear weapons.

And one day I go to the airport to meet my father, and as I walk up this grassy slope from the car park to the terminal building, I'm stopped by two soldiers wielding AK-47 assault weapons.

We need to build an arsenal of noncombative weapons in this war on terrorism.

America gave them weapons, gave them money, gave them support, encouragement.

You know, in the Cold War, we built up this huge arsenal of nuclear weapons, and that was great, and we don't need them anymore, and what are we doing with all the waste, essentially?

What are we doing with all the pits of those nuclear weapons?

We fought very hard against the dictatorship, in a moment it was necessary to us: Either go into clandestinity with weapons in hand, or leave Brazil.

I'm talking about fully autonomous robotic weapons that make lethal decisions about human beings all on their own.

For example, these were state-of-the-art weapons systems in 1400 A.D. Now they were both very expensive to build and maintain, but with these you could dominate the populace, and the distribution of political power in feudal society reflected that.

Autonomous robotic weapons are such a tool, except that, by requiring very few people to go to war, they risk re-centralizing power into very few hands, possibly reversing a five-century trend toward democracy.

Seventy nations are developing remotely-piloted combat drones of their own, and as you'll see, remotely-piloted combat drones are the precursors to autonomous robotic weapons.

Which brings us to, really, the third and most powerful incentive pushing decision-making away from humans and onto weapons: plausible deniability.

Now if responsibility and transparency are two of the cornerstones of representative government, autonomous robotic weapons could undermine both.

I think citizens of high-tech societies are more vulnerable to robotic weapons, and the reason can be summed up in one word: data.

In short, we are more visible to machines than any people in history, and this perfectly suits the targeting needs of autonomous weapons.

Now in a world of cheap, proliferating robotic weapons, borders would offer very little protection to critics of distant governments or trans-national criminal organizations.

Anonymous lethal weapons could make lethal action an easy choice for all sorts of competing interests.

And this is why we need an international treaty on robotic weapons, and in particular a global ban on the development and deployment of killer robots.

Now we already have international treaties on nuclear and biological weapons, and, while imperfect, these have largely worked.

But robotic weapons might be every bit as dangerous, because they will almost certainly be used, and they would also be corrosive to our democratic institutions.

This temporarily effectively banned autonomous weapons in the U.S. military, but that directive needs to be made permanent.

Because we need an international legal framework for robotic weapons.

And we need it now, before there's a devastating attack or a terrorist incident that causes nations of the world to rush to adopt these weapons before thinking through the consequences.

Autonomous robotic weapons concentrate too much power in too few hands, and they would imperil democracy itself.

If we have an international treaty on robotic weapons, how do we gain the benefits of autonomous drones and vehicles while still protecting ourselves against illegal robotic weapons?

But notice, this is more an immune system than a weapons system.

Autonomous robotic weapons would concentrate too much power in too few unseen hands, and that would be corrosive to representative government.

One is that we should avoid an arms race and lethal autonomous weapons.

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