Three lessons on the regulation of autonomous weapons systems to ensure accountability for violations of IHL

March 2, 2023 11 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Vincent Boulanin & Marta Bo

States have agreed on the principle that machines cannot be held accountable for violations of ...

Autonomous Weapons Systems: When is the right time to regulate?

September 26, 2019 10 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Neil C. Renic

Those wishing to control the spread and use of autonomous weapons systems generally favour pre-emptive ...

Legal regulation of AI weapons under international humanitarian law: A Chinese perspective

May 2, 2019 9 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2019 / Weapons Qiang Li & Dan Xie

Arguably, international humanitarian law (IHL) evolves with the development of emerging technologies. The history of ...

Enhanced distinction: The need for a more focused autonomous weapons targeting discussion at the LAWS GGE

March 28, 2019 10 mins read Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons John Cherry & Christopher Korpela

The meeting of the Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) has been taking place in Geneva this week. This ...

Expert views on the frontiers of artificial intelligence and conflict

March 19, 2019 16 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / The most read blog posts in 2019 Sasha Radin

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have the potential to affect many aspects of our lives ...

Machine autonomy and the constant care obligation

December 11, 2018 11 mins read Autonomous Weapons / Conduct of Hostilities / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Chris Jenks & Rain Liivoja

The debate about the way the international community should deal with autonomous weapon systems has ...

The (im)possibility of meaningful human control for lethal autonomous weapon systems

August 29, 2018 13 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Law and Conflict / Weapons Elke Schwarz

This week, the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) is holding their third meeting at the UN Certain ...

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 ...