Elizabeth Minor wants humans to stay in control of AI weapons

# AI-Powered Weapons Need Global Rules, Says Expert The leader of Stop Killer Robots—a coalition of over 300 human rights groups—is pushing for an international treaty to keep humans in charge when AI is used in warfare. Elizabeth Minor argues that without new global laws, countries will increasingly deploy autonomous weapons that make life-and-death decisions without human oversight, similar to how the world once created treaties to control nuclear weapons and chemical arms. The organization is taking their case to the United Nations to convince all nations to agree on limits before AI weapons become widespread.
Elizabeth Minor has been thinking about the risks of agentic AI and, specifically, autonomous weapons, for years. Minor is the head of policy at Stop Killer Robots, a coalition founded in 2012 in order to ensure that humans maintain control over technology in times of war. That coalition has grown t
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