Engaging with the industry: integrating IHL into new technologies in urban warfare October 7, 2021 17 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Urban warfare Damian Copeland & Lauren Sanders Alongside the urbanization of armed conflict lies a second trend: the increase in the use ...
Autonomy in weapons systems: playing catch up with technology September 29, 2021 11 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Frank Sauer For almost eight years now, the international community at the United Nations (UN) has been ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
