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06 Nov Autonomous Weapons and a Campaign for a Treaty Ban
The debate over autonomous weapons is not so visible in the United States, but the ban campaign launched by Human Rights Watch a year ago – an international NGO coalition called the “Campaign to Stop Killer Robots” – has been quite active in Europe and at the UN, where a number of countries raised the issue in their statements to the General Assembly’s First Committee (disarmament issues). Matthew Waxman and I have been writing about this issue for several years; we have a short policy paper on the topic available...01 May Law and Ethics for Robot Soldiers
...places. Matt and I have also seen how much interest is developing among international law and national security academics around this topic, as well as around robots and the law more generally, and we’re delighted to be part of it. We welcome substantive comments, here at OJ or as well by email. Lethal autonomous machines will inevitably enter the future battlefield — but they will do so incrementally, one small step at a time. The combination of inevitable and incremental development raises not only complex strategic and operational questions...
29 Nov Do AI Decision Support Systems ‘Support’ Humans in Military Decision-Making on the Use of Force?
...AI DSS in their battlefield decision-making to defend Ukraine against Russia’s illegal full-scale invasion. Some domestically developed systems, such as Kropyva or GIS Arta, have been nicknamed ‘artillery Uber’ because they integrate data from radars, drone footage and other sources to compute and share information about Russian forces’ positions with Ukrainian artillery units in real time. Other types of AI-based decision-making software are supplied by foreign companies such as Palantir Technologies, which, according to its CEO Alex Karp, is “responsible for most of the targeting in Ukraine”. While the Israeli...01 May Was the Kunduz Hospital Attack a War Crime?
...stress) and, negligence in the battlefield itself , under stress and fire, where, the judgment of commander actions , shall and must be, much less severe, due to probable necessities and improvisations on the ground . And so , If : negligence, is revealed prior to battlefield stress, and : could be avoided by carefully or reasonably sticking to written protocols, and : huge loss could be anticipated in advance due to it , then: The prosecutor in Hague , could find great interest in it .For less than that...18 Nov LJIL Symposium: A Comment on Janina Dill’s “Should International Law Ensure the Moral Acceptability of War?”
...distinguished just combatants from unjust combatants or else ignored the combatant/civilian distinction altogether and just focused on individual contribution to the war. Yet, (un)justness of cause is mired in uncertainty (what Dill terms “an epistemically-cloaked forced choice”) and the complexity of the battlefield makes it impossible to determine individual contribution to the war. Consequently, any attempt to design a more nuanced doctrine of targeting will end up being impossible to administer and too vague to offer real guidance for belligerents, thereby violating the rule of law – a moral principle...29 Aug Author of “No Easy Day” Admits to Committing a War Crime
...rounds." diane1976 What was the legal justification for violating Pakistani sovereignty? That the battlefield included the part of their country in which his house was located? This seems to be a war with a moving battlefield that follows people around wherever they may be and whatever they may be doing. Chris Diane: I think the most rational argument for the violation of Pakistani sovereignty is that Pakistan was unwilling or unable to act against al Qaeda, which organises armed attacks against the US from within Pakistan's territory. If we accept...24 Jan Jean-Marie Henckaerts Responds to Ken Anderson on ICRC Customary International Humanitarian Law Study
...the last twenty years  would still be considered lawful by States in case they constitute military objectives and sufficient precautions are taken. If mere battlefield behaviour were examined such targets would have to be considered off-limit. The same is true for nuclear weapons: on the basis of a mere consideration of battlefield practice, nuclear weapons would have to be considered unlawful  a position clearly not shared by the nuclear powers. This shows that verbal acts have an important impact on how battlefield practice has to be looked at....