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question status | Tabled | |||||||
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answering dept short name | Defence | |||||||
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hansard heading | Autonomous Weapons: Ethics | |||||||
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identifier | HL3230 | |||||||
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parliament number | 58 | |||||||
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question text | To ask His Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the report by the International Committee of the Red Cross ICRC on autonomous weapons systems published on 12 May 2021, in particular the statement that "in light of ethical considerations to safeguard humanity and to uphold International Humanitarian Law, rules for the protection of civilians and combatants hors de combat, the use of autonomous weapons systems to target human beings should be ruled out"; and what assessment they have made of systems that identify people as targets based on (1) biometrics, and (2) perceived (a) gender, (b) race, and (c) age. | |||||||
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session number | 3 | |||||||
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title | House of Lords Tabled Parliamentary Question 2022/23 HL3230 | |||||||
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written parliamentary question type | Ordinary | |||||||
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