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Toward a ban on lethal autonomous weapons: surmounting the obstacles

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A 10-point plan toward fashioning a proposal to ban some---if not all---lethal autonomous weapons.

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      cover image Communications of the ACM
      Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 5
      May 2017
      101 pages
      ISSN:0001-0782
      EISSN:1557-7317
      DOI:10.1145/3084186
      • Editor:
      • Moshe Y. Vardi
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