"We need States to come together to form an inter- governmental agreement soon about what is good practice and good operational principles in design, creation and use of autonomous weapons," he told PTI in an interview here. "We believe very strongly that we must maintain human control in this modern form of weapons. We have to keep humans in the loop," he said.Stressing that India was playing a very "responsible global role" in development of humanitarian norms for these new weapons, he said New Delhi could collaborate with agencies working on maintaining human control on the use of autonomous weapons.Slim said the collaboration between the Indian government and the ICRC was a very constructive example of humanitarian diplomacy. "India is a very significant power in the world which has a unique position between east and west. "A weapons system must have a level of human supervision which can take responsibility for the machine and which has the ability to intervene after activation of the machine," he added.

Source: Economic Times January 21, 2018 07:52 UTC