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Killer robots: necessary or a threat to humanity?

Robots are seen at the "Hannover Messe" industrial trade fair in Hanover April 7, 2014. The world's leading fair for industrial technology, with about 5,000 exhibitors from 65 nations, runs till April 11 with the Netherlands as this year's partner country.

Robots are seen at an industrial trade fair. Image: REUTERS/Morris Mac Matzen

Bonnie Docherty
Lecturer on Law, Senior Clinical Instructor at Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard University
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