A number of countries, including the US and Russia, are blocking the possibility of signing a treaty banning killer robots

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Several large countries, including the United States and Russia, continue to block the possibility of signing an international treaty on the use of autonomous weapons.

The campaign aimed at stopping killer robots calls on countries to enter into negotiations on a new treaty requiring significant human intervention to use force. Starting in 2014, many countries began discussing the dangers of autonomous weapons in expert groups under the Conventional Arms Convention. Twenty-eight members of the Conventional Arms Convention called for a direct ban on the use of fully autonomous weapons.