On the Autonomy and Threat of 'Killer Robots'

International audience; We aim here to put forward a detailed analysis of the 2015 open letter warning of a new AI arms race and proposing a ban on offensive lethal autonomous systems, which was one of the first public manifestations of the desire to ban LAWS. Our reservations concerning the declarations that this letter contains should help to open the scientific and philosophical debates on the controversial issues that lie at the heart of the matter.