The killer robots are coming! Maybe.

The US and Russia helped block the UN from broaching the subject during a week of meetings in Geneva, Politico reported.

During the summit, which ended in the wee hours of Saturday, a group at the United Nations’ Convention on Conventional Weapons discussed whether to take negotiations on fully autonomous weapons powered by artificial intelligence to a formal level that could lead to a treaty banning them.

“It’s a disappointment, of course, that a small minority of large military powers can hold back the will of the majority,” Mary Wareham, coordinator of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, told Politico.

Her group represents 75 non-governmental organizations in 32 countries fighting for a ban on weapons that use AI technology to choose their targets.

She said South Korea, Israel and Australia were the other main countries opposing the global appeal.

However, a list of non-binding recommendations that participating countries agreed on skirts the question of whether to move on to formal negotiations, Politico reported.

Twenty-six parties have fully endorsed the weapons ban. The unlikely group of allies includes Cuba, the Palestinian territories and the Vatican.

Their stance is that killer bots violate human rights standards.

Countries are set to meet again in November in Geneva.