person

Toby Walsh

UNSW Sydney; AI safety advocate

Scientia Professor of AI at UNSW Sydney; chief scientist of the UNSW AI Institute. Long-standing campaigner against autonomous weapons and a leading public voice for AI regulation in Australia.

current Scientia Professor of AI, UNSW Sydney

homepage @TobyWalsh

Strategy positions

International treatyendorses

Arms-control-style treaty on frontier training or deployment

Argues lethal autonomous weapons must be banned by international treaty, modeled on the 1990s ban on blinding lasers; co-organized 'killer robots' open letter with thousands of researcher signatures.

Killer robots will become the third revolution in warfare, after gunpowder and nuclear arms. They will fundamentally lower the threshold for armed conflict.

¶ articleOpen Letter to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons· Future of Life Institute· 2017· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Toby Walsh's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Amandeep Singh Gill
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UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Technology
Angela Kane
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Former UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs
Anja Kaspersen
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UN senior fellow; disarmament diplomat
Bletchley Declaration Signatories
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First international AI Safety Summit signatories (2023)
Brian Tse
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Founder of Concordia AI; China AI safety
Fumio Kishida
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Former Prime Minister of Japan (2021–2024); Hiroshima AI Process architect

Record last updated 2026-04-25.