2015 Report: Public Opinion on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

Earlier this year (2015), the Open Roboethics initiative conducted an international survey to engage members of the public in the discussion of lethal autonomous weapons systems — weapons systems in which the system makes the decision to use lethal force without requiring human intervention — and remotely operated weapons systems — system in which a person in a remote location makes the decision.

With the help of numerous volunteer translators, we launched our survey in 14 different languages, and received responses from over a 1000 participants from 54 different countries. Although we did not collect representative number of responses from all 54 countries, the aggregated results of our survey show that our respondents are reluctant to endorse the development and use of lethal autonomous weapons.

Find out about this year’s results on our summary report, The Ethics and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.

Public opinion on this topic is important, and can change over time. Therefore, we want to continue to engage you in our discussions on this topic by keeping the survey open. Help us to continue the discussion by completing our multi-lingual survey and sharing the link with others:

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