🚀 Vienna, Get Ready! 🚀

📌 On Sunday 28 April, we'll be in the heart of Vienna, ready to ignite discussions, brainstorm solutions, and pave the way forward in regulating #AutonomousWeapons . 💡💪

Stay tuned as we gear up for this pivotal event! 🛫
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📢Foro de la sociedad civil ''Action at the Crossroads'' organizado por Stop Killer Robots
🗓️28/04 #Viena , Austria 🇦🇹

Consta de cuatro programas simultáneos:
1⃣Activismo a través del arte
2⃣¿Cuáles son las armas autónomas?
3⃣Deshumanización digital
4⃣Nuevo derecho internacional

One of the themes for #ActionAtTheCrossroads is
❌ Not the Terminator: What are #AutonomousWeapons

Sessions include:
🤖 What are autonomous weapons?
🤖 Trends in autonomy and the innovation-regulation gap
🤖 Youth Spotlight series

🔗 full programme: stopkillerrobots.org/wp-content/upl…

'There's a lack of real accountability, targets are selected by sensor, algorithms and not human beings'

- Amb. Lansana Gberie 🇸🇱 speaking about #AutonomousWeapons on BBC News (World)'s Focus On Africa, following the adoption of the #Freetown Communiqué on #AWS

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We’re less than week away from Action at the Crossroads - the civil society forum on autonomous weapons and the challenge of regulation in Vienna🇦🇹!

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#ActionAtTheCrossroads #StopKillerRobots #AWS2024

The programme for the Action at the Crossroads Civil society forum in 📍Vienna is now live 🤖🔥

Read it here 🔜 stopkillerrobots.org/wp-content/upl…

#AWS #AWS 2024 #ActionAtTheCrossroads

One week to #AWS2024Vienna ! We start the expert panels with a discussion on Emerging Technologies, AWS and the (future) shape of conflict - implications of autonomy for international security and society with speakers from Amnesty International, ODA, @UN, Carnegie Endowment, IISS News

⏳ONE WEEK TO GO!⏳

📍🇦🇹 This time next week the Action at the Crossroads civil society forum on #AutonomousWeapons and the challenge of regulation will be taking place in Vienna, #Austria .

Check out our exciting line up ⤵️
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#AWS #ActionAtTheCrossroads

📰Ahead of the upcoming Humanity at the Crossroads gov't conference on #AWS in Vienna🇦🇹, alexander kmentt and Marit Seyer, from the Austrian Campaign to #StopKillerRobots , sat down with DER STANDARD to speak about need to regulate #AWS KRC Austria

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🤖📣Yesterday, #ECOWAS states adopted the #Freetown Communiqué following the first-ever African conference on #AutonomousWeapons in Sierra Leone🇸🇱 Sierra Leone Embassy in Switzerland

➡️Read the Communiqué: awsfreetown.com/en-us/communiq…

Congratulations to #StopKillerRobots campaigners for their work! 👏

Congratulations to the African States that adopted the #Freetown Communiqué on Autonomous Weapons Systems after the 1st-ever African conference on this issue.
Africa commits to supporting the urgent negotiation of a LBI on #AWS

Great work also to Stop Killer Robots campaigners!

Life and death decisions cannot be made by algorithms without human control.

It’s high time for internationally agreed prohibitions & regulations.

🚨An hour ago, and to much applause, ECOWAS representatives adopted the #Freetown Communiqué on #autonomousweapons ,

committing “to support the urgent negotiation of a legally binding instrument”

“with specific regulations and prohibitions”

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The final panel of the #SierraLeone 🇸🇱meeting on #AutonomousWeapons was on 'Navigating the Path Forward'📈

Speakers included Gugu Dube, a researcher from our Research and Monitoring team Automated Decision Research alongside representatives from
🎙️Sierra Leone Embassy in Switzerland
🎙️Costa Rica @ the UN
🎙️ACE-AJ