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29 Oct International Law and Popular Culture Symposium: ‘Westworld’ and Human Rights
...HBO series Westworld ‘The right information at the right time is deadlier than any weapon.’ – Martin Connells, Westworld Season 3, Episode 5 Introduction At the end of season 2 of HBO’s sci-fi drama Westworld, it became clear that the true purpose of Westworld, an adult ‘theme park’ in which guests could interact with extremely realistic AI robots, was to collect data on those who visited the park. The use of this data was revealed in season 3, when the show was set for the first time out of the...06 Nov Robotics and the Law Panel at Stanford Law School
...conflict.) Stanford Law School 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m. Reception (Student Lounge) 6:30 p.m. — 7:45 p.m. Panel (Room 190) Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent years have seen an explosion in the use of robotics in warfare, medicine, and exploration. Industry analysts and UN statistics predict equally significant growth in the market for personal or service robotics over the next few years. What unique legal challenges will the widespread availability of sophisticated robots pose?...06 Apr Events and announcements: April 6, 2014
...October 2014. Proposals for papers should be submitted to the editors by July 31, 2014. Contact details are available on the TDM website. Announcements The ICRC has launched its first Research & Debate Cycle on New Technologies and the Modern Battlespace. In recent years, a wide array of new technologies has entered the modern battlefield, giving rise to new methods and means of warfare, such as cyber attacks, armed drones and robots. While there can be no doubt that IHL applies to them, applying pre-existing legal rules to new technologies...
13 Apr Beyond Anthropic’s Red Line: Human-in-the-Loop and the Illusion of Legitimacy in AI Decision-Support Systems
...(pre-establishment of lawful targets). However, this generalized decision-making operating in the battlefield’s inherent uncertainty may undermine the case-by-case judgment required by IHL. Alternatively, AI-DSS are computerized tools designed to aid humans in complex decision-making. These tools bring together data (e.g. satellite imagery, sensor data, or phone signals) to detect familiar patterns and present analysis and recommendations to decision makers. They use data driven AI-technologies such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, which build an AI system by letting it “learn” through training data gathered from experience. Thus, contrary to earlier...
27 Oct A Step Forward into Terror: What Neon Genesis Evangelion Tells us About the Future of Warfare
...injuries suffered by a civilian during battle, I will explore the inadequacy of dispute settlement regimes that shield the UN from redressing the harms caused by its peace enforcement operations. I will conclude, as the anime does, calling upon humanity to stop mindlessly marching towards terror. Of Angels and Robots One crisp morning in 2015, the quiet waters east of Tokyo-3 are suddenly disrupted by a massive shockwave. A monstrous creature emerges from the deep realising everyone’s worst fears. It’s been 15 years since contact with Adam brought about the “Second Impact,” a...25 Feb Drones as Strategic Airpower and the Light Cavalry?
...the use of a missile fired from a drone in battle significantly different from a missile fired from a manned aircraft, or a helicopter, or some other place. Critics who call the practice extrajudicial execution, however, are frequently focused upon another scenario. The version of it analytically furthest from the hot battlefield scenario is a CIA directed drone missile strike upon a target in a compound far away from any theatre of active fighting, such as AfPak — someone in Yemen or Somalia, to take the obvious examples. From the...
02 Jul Upstream Harms: OSI, AI Militarism, Big Tech, and Gaza
...late 2023 to early 2024 detailed several AI-driven systems (‘Habsora,’ ‘Lavender,’ and ‘Where’s Daddy?’) that were being used by the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for target identification. Such systems “can ‘generate’ targets almost automatically… essentially facilitat[ing] a ‘mass assassination factory.’” The automation and acceleration of target-generation processes have compressed kill chains, with AI now embedded across military systems. Operating across surveillance, targeting, logistics, and battlefield management, AI is increasingly directly influencing the conduct of hostilities. The imbrication of big tech companies in this emerging ecosystem is increasingly obvious. In 2021,...
11 Jul All Wars Matter? On a Different Way for International Lawyers to Engage with Armed Conflicts
...are prominently platformed because they are “the ones applying IHL during real-life battlefield situations”. Centering operational considerations is what is considered necessary to ensure that the legal analysis is not “divorced from what is happening on the ground”. The perspectives of those at the receiving end of bombs, bullets, or exploding pagers are immaterial for a legal analysis that aims to be realistic. At best, the experiences and losses of war victims are a tragic reality that needs to be accepted as inevitable, without being seriously reckoned with or examined...07 Mar Thoughts on Rumsfeld v. FAIR
...the legal basis for the use of force, rules of engagement, capitulation, parole and local cease fire agreements, civilians on the battlefield, war crimes investigation, negotiations with armed groups, the wearing of non-standard uniforms, and child soldiers on the battlefield. Judge advocates are critical and much relied upon members of the military commander’s staff, and move when and where their units move…. The enforcement of the Solomon Amendment is essential to supporting and maintaining the military, especially considering the “increasingly challenging recruiting environment” brought about by the Global War on...10 Sep ICC’s Ocampo Indicates Probe Underway into NATO Actions in Afghanistan
...deeply interested – and deeply skeptical. Violations of these kinds are frequently asserted by human rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch in its various Gaza and other reports. But in the post-war period, I am not aware (and once a couple of years ago was able to put a squad of highly paid law firm associates to the task of looking up stuff) of any case that specifically claimed, over the traditional “commander’s battlefield discretion,” even to prosecute a violation of proportionality as such, let alone a conviction for...