In the U.N.’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons that comprises of 115 states, intends to ban or limit the use of weapons which could kill civilians indiscriminately or result in unnecessary pain, and these range from mines to lasers that have been specially designed to blind people. This group also hopes to agree on what an autonomous weapon is, and it remains to be seen whether a killer robot falls under that category, before the suits continue discussing the legal and ethical questions when it comes to using such weapons.
International organizations including Human Rights Watch and the Red Cross have already weighed in on the matter, where they championed for an outright ban on autonomous killing machines.