25/08/2026
UN chief, Red Cross renew call for rules on lethal autonomous weapons.
“We are now dangerously close to crossing a moral red line: the autonomous targeting of humans by machines,” UN Secretary-General Guterres said, in a joint appeal with International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) head Mirjana Spoljaric Egger.
The joint appeal is for two types of autonomous weapons to be prohibited:
1. Unpredictable autonomous weapons
2. Anti-personnel weapons
Amid unconfirmed reports that fully autonomous and AI-guided drones are now being used on the battlefield, UN chief António Guterres and the President of the Red Cross on Tuesday renewed their urgent call for stricter global controls, before it is too late.