Amnesty International warned against developing drones and other advanced weapons that have the ability to choose their own targets and attack them without human control, describing this as a terrifying scenario.
The organization called on leaders of governments around the world to initiate negotiations for a new international law to ensure human control over the use of force, and to ban machines that target humans, "turning us into objects, blocks and data points."
The organization said many governments and companies are working urgently to develop increasingly autonomous lethal weapons systems using new technology and artificial intelligence.
These "killer robots" can be used in conflict zones, by police forces, and in border control.
"The machine should not be allowed to decide on matters of life and death. Let us act now to protect our humanity and make the world a safer place," the organization stressed.
The organization explained that machines cannot make complex ethical choices;
They lack empathy and understanding, and make decisions based on biased, flawed, and unfair processes.
Emerging technologies, such as facial and voice recognition, often fail to identify women, people of color, and people with disabilities;
This means that lethal autonomous weapons can never be adequately programmed to replace human decision-making.
The organization warned that this would represent a serious threat to human rights;
Such as the right to protest, the right to life, and the prohibition of torture and other ill-treatment.
Countries such as the United States, China, Israel, South Korea, Russia, Australia, India and the United Kingdom continue to invest in lethal autonomous weapons despite these concerns, according to Amnesty International.
This Amnesty International campaign comes ahead of a meeting of a group of United Nations experts in December on the topic of "killer robots".
Earlier, Israel began using swarms of drones that are completely controlled by artificial intelligence;
The system feeds data from satellites, other reconnaissance drones, aerial vehicles, and information collected by the ground unit, so that it conducts combat operations without the need for human guidance, which has been criticized by human rights organizations such as Human Rights Watch.