Killer robots spark row between uni, Defence over academic freedom

Steve Evans
February 18 2021 - 4:30am

The government has cancelled a multimillion-dollar contract with the university department it commissioned to devise ethical rules for "killer robots" deployed alongside Australian soldiers and fighter pilots in war.

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Steve Evans

Steve Evans

Reporter

Steve Evans is a reporter on The Canberra Times. He's been a BBC correspondent in New York, London, Berlin and Seoul and the sole reporter/photographer/paper deliverer on The Glen Innes Examiner in country New South Wales. "All the jobs have been fascinating - and so it continues."