Religion, Peace & the Moral Issues of Fully Autonomous Weapons on the day after International Day of Peace–
Due to our growing concerns surrounding fully autonomous weapons or ‘Killer Robots’, Religions for Peace Australia, Quakers Victoria, Pax Christi Victoria, URI, Canberra Interfaith Forum, The Multifaith Association of South Australia, Stop Killer Robots Australia and others are jointly hosting an informative and interactive event in person and online. Autonomous Weapons will be able to select and engage targets without meaningful human control. They use artificial intelligence algorithms and machine learning to make life and death decisions without human compassion, judgment or morality. We invite you to join all people of conscience and faith in speaking out to preserve our humanity. As it says in the Interfaith Statement on Killer Robots “Instead of placing our faith in technologies that unaccountably kill, maim and destroy human life, we devote ourselves to building cultures of peace, nonviolence, dialogue, and mutual cooperation, respecting the dignity of difference.”
When: THURSDAY 22nd September
- 7pm -8.30 PM AEST (6.30 pm SA/NT, 5pm WA)
Where: ZOOM Online or Victorian Quaker Centre, 484 William Street, West Melbourne, Vic, 3003
Please register using this link: https://forms.gle/qFCdsQ4mMAZbXtDR6
Speakers include:
- Philippa Rowlands – Chair,Religions for Peace Australia
- Caesar D’Mello – Pax Christi Australia
- Rev. Chris Parnell – Religions for Peace Australia
- Matilda Byrne – Stop Killer Robots Australia
- Dean Sahu Khan – Canberra Interfaith Forum
- Rabbi Shoshana Kaminsky – South Australian Faith Leader