| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 2024/11/05 | 161 states vote in favour of Resolution L.77, with three voting against it and 13 states abstaining. The vote will mandate discussions pver two days in New York in 2025 to discuss the issues raised in the Secretary-General's report on AWS. The discussions are welcomed by activists who see it as an opportunity for aspects of AWS regulation which hve been ignored in the meetings of government experts, such as their social impact, to be discussed. |
| 2023/11/01 | The UN General Assembly adopts an historic resolution on AWS. The resolution requests the UN secretary General to prepare a report on ways to address AWS found here here |
| 2018/08/27 | Press conference on the 2018 group of gevernmental experts on LAWS found here |
| 2012/11/19 | Human Rights Watch issued its report Loosing Humanity: the case against Killer Robots |
| 2012/11/21 | The USA releases its first public policy document on autonomous weapons. The policy states that autonomous and semi autonomous weapons should be desined to allow commanders and operators to exersise the 'appropriate' level of human judgement over the use of force. |
| 2020/04/08 | UNIDIR releases its report here accompanied by the video here |
| 2020/09/21 | 2nd Meeting - 1st Session Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 2020 here and here |
| 2020/09/22 | 4th Meeting - 1st Session Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 2020 here |
| 2013/05/30 | Nations discussed AWS in Geneva for the first time to discuss this report |
| 2021/08/01 | Hyundai acquires "Boston Dynamics" and begins creating robot dogs for military purposes |
| 2022/02/25 | The US space force general, David Thompson remarks that the USA will have machines that kill people here |
| 2022/02/12 | The US goverment accountability office identifes 685 DOD AI projects in its report the key notes are foundhere |
| 2025/04/02 | Google lifts its ban on using AI for Weapons and surveillance |