Who Decides When to Fire?: A Legal Debate over “Killer Robots”

Darcan, Emirhan (10 February 2022). Who Decides When to Fire?: A Legal Debate over “Killer Robots”. Orion Forum Orion Policy Institute

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The rapid technological advancement of LAWS presents significant challenges to international law. Those challenges include the further dehumanization of war and the inability to hold any individual responsible for a misguided killer-robot attack or some other autonomous weapon. Countries that invest in and are eager to use LAWS technology should be bound by the legal requirements.
Autonomous weapons systems that require human assistance to operate are much less controversial than autonomous killer robots that can function independently. Use of the latter should be limited to specific, clearly defined tasks and be programmed to comply with international rules.

Item Type:

Newspaper or Magazine Article

Division/Institute:

02 Faculty of Law > Department of Penal Law > Institute for Penal Law and Criminology > Chair Prof. Weber
02 Faculty of Law > Department of Penal Law > Institute for Penal Law and Criminology

UniBE Contributor:

Darcan, Emirhan

Subjects:

000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
100 Philosophy
100 Philosophy > 170 Ethics
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 320 Political science
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 340 Law
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology > 360 Social problems & social services

Publisher:

Orion Policy Institute

Language:

English

Submitter:

Emirhan Darcan

Date Deposited:

30 Mar 2022 12:27

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:08

Uncontrolled Keywords:

artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), international law, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), the Geneva Conventions, "Killer Robots"

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/165433

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/165433

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