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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>INFORMATIONEN DER FI NOTTULN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Liebe Freundinnen und Freunde,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>wir informieren Euch über einen Offenen Brief gegen bewaffnete Drohnen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Wir wünschen uns, dass viele von Euch unterzeichnen.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mit freundlichem Gruß<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Robert Hülsbusch <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Liebe Mitstreiter*innen, <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>wir hoffen, dass möglichst viele Menschen den Offenen Brief der KI-Wissenschaftler*innen in Deutschland und auch weltweit unterzeichnen werden. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Der Aufruf <a href="https://aiscientists4peace.org/">https://aiscientists4peace.org/</a> enthält eine deutsche wie auch eine englische Fassung des Offenen Briefs mit einer Anleitung zur Unterzeichnung auf Deutsch und auf Englisch. (Dieser Link ersetzt den früheren Link zum Offenen Brief auf einemrGoogle-Plattform und führt alle bisherigen Unterzeichnungen zusammen.)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Jakob Förster, der am 14. September am Webinar des <i>AK gegen bewaffnete Drohnen</i> (<a href="http://drohnen.frieden-und-zukunft.de/">http://drohnen.frieden-und-zukunft.de/</a>) teilgenommen hatte, ist einer der Initiatoren. Der Offene Brief ist u. a. am 01.11. in Telepolis veröffentlicht worden. Danach folgte ein Interview mit Jakob Förster und dem KI-Wissenschaftler und Mitinitiator Christian Schroeder de Witt in Telepolis am 03.11. <a href="https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Drohnenkrieg-hat-tausende-zivile-Opfer-gefordert-6247718.html" target="_top">https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Drohnenkrieg-hat-tausende-zivile-Opfer-gefordert-6247718.html</a> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Bitte unterzeichnet und verbreitet gerne den Offenen Brief in Deutschland und in anderen Ländern. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Viele Grüße<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Susanne Grabenhorst<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Begin forwarded message: <o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Jakob Foerster <<a href="mailto:jakob.foerster@eng.ox.ac.uk" target="_top">jakob.foerster@eng.ox.ac.uk</a>></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Subject: Urgent: Open letter against armed drones from German, English and Austrian AI scientists</span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Date: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>6. November 2021 at 21:26:38 CET</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>To: </span></b><span style='font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'> "<a href="mailto:elsarassbach@gmail.com" target="_top">elsarassbach@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:elsarassbach@gmail.com" target="_top">elsarassbach@gmail.com</a>></span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dear fellow campaigners against the weaponization of drones,</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>In Germany, a preliminary decision on the arming of drones will be made in the current coalition negotiations. Germany is the only highly industrialized country that has so far refrained from acquiring armed drones, so this dispute has significance for the global efforts to stop the proliferation of these weapons and to outlaw armed drones in the long term.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We’d like to draw your attention to<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/offener-brief-drohnen-nov21" target="_top"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC'>a current open letter</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> from AI scientists from England, Germany and Austria, which can be signed by anyone and everyone<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/offener-brief-drohnen-nov21" target="_top"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC'>via the link</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>:</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We’d like to ask you to sign this letter, to spread it and to forward it to any contacts you might have at the international press (feel free to keep me in cc,<span class=apple-converted-space> </span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="mailto:jakob.foerster@eng.ox.ac.uk" target="_top"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1155CC'>jakob.foerster@eng.ox.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>).</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At this crucial moment in Germany every voice against the arming of drones could be decisive and achieve a positive breakthrough for disarmament, international civil cooperation and respect for human rights.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We believe that the dangers of creeping automation of these weapons can no longer be denied, see e.g what is believed to be the first<i> fully autonomous attack</i> by an armed drone on a human being in Libya. This point is underrepresented in the German debate on drones and need to be stressed, which we tried to highlight in our letter: </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='margin-left:36.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>“The weaponization of drones makes autonomous weaponry possible in principle and represents a critical turning point. The scientific and technological state of the art is now so advanced that any modern remotely piloted armed drone is only a software update away from being a fully autonomous lethal weapon without proof! ... The arming of drones crosses a critical threshold towards the automation of warfare: towards the development of weapons whose attack on humans is automated, without further human decision, supervision or possibility of abort.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><b>The urgently needed international outlawing of fully autonomous lethal weapons, which the previous German government has also taken up, must therefore include armed drones.</b>”</span></i><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We look forward to hearing back with you and remain with the very best regards and many thanks! </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dr. Jakob Foerster, Associate Professor in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, and Peter Förster, Peace Activist</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2">
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