"The primary goal of GM's autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle development is safety, " Capp said.

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By reducing the discussion to a simplified fear campaign aimed at stopping the development of autonomous systems, HRW may very well be preventing the deployment of systems that can be more careful and less likely to harm civilians.

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As you know, I feel strongly that it would be a bad idea to allow the development of fully autonomous lethal weapons.

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Regulating the development and use of autonomous robots will require a rather more elaborate framework.

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Weinberg also states that a feasibility study for a Bluefields-Nueva Guinea highway has been completed by the Danish development agency DANIDA, linking two towns in the Southern Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAS), with a further link foreseen to Monkey Point (which lies south of Bluefields, the RAAS seat).

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The IOC, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2010, is a largely autonomous body within UNESCO which promotes international cooperation in ocean scientific research and in the development of ocean services worldwide.

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Todd Gray, chairman and president of Autonomous ID, said this new CMU lab gives his company the needed research and development boost to field trial the primary identity apparatus dubbed BioSole and its cloud connected automation suite governing the access and use of controlled resources.

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"It's quite remarkable to me that people are assuming that somehow we're at a new stage in political or institutional or economic development in Mexico, " said John Ackerman, a law professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and a visiting scholar at American University in Washington.

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