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We are trying to get as many companies as possible to sign this open letter endorsing the UN's efforts to regulate and/or ban killer robots (formally called LAWS, for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems). Please leave a comment with your email address if you are willing to co-sign the open letter. Thank you.

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If you're serious about this you can take the time to create a formal process. People don't even post their email addresses on their profiles without obfuscation, this just looks like lazy phishing attempt.

Good idea, we'll make a sign-up form as you suggest. Meanwhile anyone who doesn't feel comfortable posting their email can send me a direct message at upwardbound@preamble.com Thank you!

That acronym seems likely to cause some confusion, like "we need laws against LAWS".

Agreed, it's kind of confusing.. Maybe they'll pick a different term in the future but for now this seems to be the one they landed on.

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