Guterres calls for ban on autonomous ‘killer robots’

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for a ban on autonomous weapons commonly described as “killer robots”, according to a report by Al Jazeera Global News.

The call was presented in an Al Jazeera “On the Record” episode. The available material does not provide the date or location of Guterres’s remarks beyond the report’s publication on 21 September 2026.

The source does not clarify whether the proposal would cover all autonomous weapons or a narrower category of systems able to select and attack targets without human control.

Nor does it indicate that a ban has been adopted, incorporated into international law or taken forward through negotiations. No government responses or implementation details were provided.