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Blog: Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons Published 28 May 2019 By Dr Marta Bo and Taylor Woodcock Autonomous weapons such as unmanned aerial vehicles have been termed ‘the third revolution in warfare’  ©iStock. Asser Institute and Graduate Institute

Academy will include general sessions on legal and theoretical perspectives on AI (including on legal personality, collective agency, human control, responsibility), real-life case studies, and thematic sessions focusing on autonomous weapons systems and other uses of AI in the military as a case study

Panel discussion: Human control over Autonomous Military Technologies Published 29 January 2019 Autonomous weapons such as unmanned aerial vehicles have been termed ‘the third revolution in warfare’  © iStock. On Wednesday 13 February, the Asser Institute will be hosting a panel discussion on the

line is not settled.  Besides, the potential applications of AI in the military context are considerably broader than merely the issue of autonomous weapons. The capacity of AI technologies to collect and process vast amount of information at a scale and speed that goes beyond human cognitive

topic of ‘Remote, Autonomous Weapons and Human Agency’ . It will take place on Monday 22 February 2021 (16:00 CET), and more information including registration details will be published on the website of the Asser Institute.

applications of AI have the most critical implications in terms of international law and ethics? Why is it important to engage with military AI and its implications beyond the scope of (fully) autonomous weapons systems, which still form the core of discussions in the field of international law? In what ways

-support systems, even if they do not autonomously execute targets, can play a critical role in the long chain of human-machine and machine-machine decision-making infrastructure, thus contributing to the co-production of hostilities. Due to a lack of a definition of the treaty terms ‘weapons, means or

Nexus News [New publication] Autonomous weapons and the responsibility gap in the ICC statute 4 May 2021 A new publication in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Oxford Academic) by Asser and IHEID researcher Marta Bo tackles the difficulties of establishing responsibility for war crimes

, researchers of the Graduate Institute and the Asser Institute start a multi-annual joint research project on autonomous weapons and international criminal law this summer. Just recently, the Asser Institute organised a panel discussion with the ICRC on ‘The Role of International Criminal Law in Fostering

full interview is available here in English or here in Dutch , and is reproduced below. *** Although types of automated weapons have existed for hundreds of years – with anti-personnel mines being the earliest example – the development of such systems controlled by artificial intelligence (AI) has