Red Cross Red Crescent magazine 
Getting by with a little help from a friend
The tale of two friends who look after the health and wellbeing of each other.
The tale of two friends who look after the health and wellbeing of each other.
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It’s the stuff of science fiction: machines that make decisions about who and when to kill. Referred to as “autonomous weapons”, they’re already in use to some degree. But as more sophisticated systems are being developed we wanted to an expert in the field about whether such systems comply with international humanitarian law and what it means for humanity to give machines the power over human life and death.