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 ...

Trying to square the circle: the ICRC AI Policy

November 28, 2024 16 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Pierrick Devidal

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies brings significant opportunities, and risks, for principled humanitarian ...

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 problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems

September 3, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / New Technologies / Special Themes / Weapons Ingvild Bode & Ishmael Bhila

Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate ...

Artificial intelligence in military decision-making: supporting humans, not replacing them

August 29, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Wen Zhou & Anna Rosalie Greipl

The desire to develop technological solutions to help militaries in their decision-making processes is not ...

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 ...

Deploying OSINT in armed conflict settings: law, ethics, and the need for a new theory of harm

December 5, 2023 16 mins read Analysis / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Human Costs of Cyber / IHL / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Ed Millett

The deployment of open-source intelligence, or OSINT – information gathered from publicly available data sources ...

The Power of Humanity: On Being Human Now and in the Future

July 30, 2019 12 mins read Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Identity / The most read blog posts in 2019 Hugo Slim

In December 2019 the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will meet in Geneva ...

Joint Blog Series: Medical care in armed conflict PART I

January 24, 2019 13 mins read Health Care / Joint Blog Series / Law and Conflict Marco Sassòli

Rules regarding medical care in armed conflict have been a cornerstone of international humanitarian law (IHL) since it was first codified in 1864. ...

Is arms control over emerging technologies just a peacetime luxury? Lessons learned from the First World War

January 18, 2019 14 mins read History / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / Weapons Eric Germain

At the turn of the twentieth century, many engineers with fertile imaginations—from France’s Gustave Gabet to America’s Orville Wright—hoped that their inventions would ...

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 ...

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 ...