U.N.'s recent debate on the usage of "Killer Robots"

Two nights ago, I came across this article on Yahoo's homepage. It caught my eye because we were talking about the U.N. and their influence in American politics. I know in the beginning of the course, we were talking about "killer-robots" and I thought I'd share with ya'll something that has been in the news recently.

On Tuesday, international governments began a 4-day conference in Geneva, where they would solely talk about on "lethal autonomous weapon systems" aka. killer robots. The technology that have been used to develop these terminator-like robots have become advanced to the point where international laws are beginning to be made. In the article, they state that "usually international law only responds to suffering and catastrophes after the fact". This especially caught my eye, because I wonder if certain events of global suffering could have been prevented by having people come together for four days....

Another point that I would like to point out is that the article quotes that: "Controversy rages, especially over the civilian collateral damage caused when the United States strikes alleged Islamist militants". Right away my mind goes straight to "Collateral Murder", and I begin to question if it would make a difference if we had robotic soldiers. It seems like the aspects of war dehumanize actual humans to the point where they shoot eight civilians and injure/kill children all in the name of taking out the "target". Would it make a difference if we were replaced by machines? It seems like in some aspect we have already become them.