AI, war and (in)humanity: the role of human emotions in military decision-making February 20, 2025 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Weapons Joanna L D Wilson Contemporary armed conflicts are increasingly complex and, through rapid technological development, increasingly remote. This calls ...
The (im)possibility of responsible military AI governance December 12, 2024 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Elke Schwarz During 2024, efforts to address the governance of military artificial intelligence (AI) have gained momentum. ...
Will AI fundamentally alter how wars are initiated, fought and concluded? September 26, 2024 10 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Erica Harper In the debate on how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact military strategy and decision-making, a ...
Transcending weapon systems: the ethical challenges of AI in military decision support systems September 24, 2024 12 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Matthias Klaus The military decision-making process is facing a challenge by the increasing number of interconnected sensors ...
The risks and inefficacies of AI systems in military targeting support September 4, 2024 12 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez Over the past decade, discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in the military domain have largely ...
Reinventing the wheel? Three lessons that the AWS debate can learn from existing arms control agreements June 13, 2024 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Laura Bruun For more than a decade, states have met at the UN in Geneva to discuss ...
The road less travelled: ethics in the international regulatory debate on autonomous weapon systems April 25, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Special Themes / Weapons Alexander Blanchard Efforts to address the ethical challenges posed by autonomous weapon systems are growing. In December ...
Falling under the radar: the problem of algorithmic bias and military applications of AI March 14, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Gender and conflict / Human Costs of Cyber Ingvild Bode Last week, states parties met for the first session of the Group of Governmental Experts ...
Loitering munitions: flagging an urgent need for legally binding rules for autonomy in weapon systems June 29, 2023 10 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / New Technologies / Weapons Ingvild Bode & Tom F.A. Watts Earlier this month, a viral story alleged that a US Air Force simulation took place ...
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 ...
