Cardinal Bo urges lawmakers to reject the ‘automated slaughter’ of autonomous weapons

Cardinal Charles Maung Bo has called on Christian legislators from around the world to “reject automated warfare” and support strong limits that keep the technology of artificial intelligence under human control.“As representatives of the people, your mandate is clear: You must champion an immediate, binding international ban on fully autonomous lethal weapons,” the cardinal and archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, said in Assisi, Italy, on Aug. 24.“To automate the battlefield is to lower the moral threshold for violence, stripping conflict of…