The impact of gender and race bias in AI August 28, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Gender / Gender and conflict / Law and Conflict / Weapons Noel Sharkey Automated decision algorithms are currently propagating gender and race discrimination throughout our global community. The ...
The human nature of international humanitarian law August 23, 2018 10 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict Eric Talbot Jensen International humanitarian law (IHL) regulates the use of force in armed conflict. It inherently provides ...
Autonomous weapons: Operationalizing meaningful human control August 15, 2018 16 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Merel Ekelhof For the second time this year, States will come together in the UN Convention on ...
Autonomous weapons and human control July 18, 2018 7 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / Weapons Tim McFarland Concerns about ensuring sufficient human control over autonomous weapon systems (AWS) have been prominent since ...
Human judgment and lethal decision-making in war April 11, 2018 8 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Paul Scharre For the fifth year in a row, government delegates meet at the United Nations in ...
Autonomous weapon systems: A threat to human dignity? April 10, 2018 13 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Ariadna Pop In the opening scene of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk, six British soldiers, looking for food and ...
Autonomous weapon systems: An ethical basis for human control? April 3, 2018 6 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / The most read blog posts in 2018 / Weapons Neil Davison The requirement for human control The risks of functionally delegating complex tasks—and associated decisions—to sensors ...
Ethics as a source of law: The Martens clause and autonomous weapons November 14, 2017 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Rob Sparrow Ethics evolves, the law changes. In this way, moral progress may occur. Yet the relation ...
Autonomous weapons mini-series: Distance, weapons technology and humanity in armed conflict October 6, 2017 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Alex Leveringhaus In this blog post, I look at the ethical and legal ramifications of distance in ...
Introduction to Mini-Series: Autonomous weapon systems and ethics October 4, 2017 2 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / Weapons Autonomous weapon systems & the dictates of public conscience: An ethical basis for human control? On 28–29 August 2017, the ICRC convened a ...