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13 Apr Law and Ethics for Autonomous Weapon Systems
Last November, two documents appeared within a few days of each other, each addressing the emerging legal and policy issues of autonomous weapon systems – and taking strongly incompatible approaches. One was from Human Rights Watch, whose report, Losing Our Humanity: The Case Against Killer Robots, made a sweeping, provocative call for an international treaty ban on the use, production, and development of what it defined as “fully autonomous weapons.” Human Rights Watch has followed that up with a public campaign for signatures on a petition supporting a ban, as...
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...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...
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...14 May ANZAC Day and Post Conflict Reconciliation
...coalition has participated. While by no means diminishing what ANZAC day means to Australia and New Zealand, all countries have their holidays commemorating wartime service and sacrifice. But what makes ANZAC day so compelling to me is how the relationship between former battlefield enemies has evolved. Flash forward from the 1915 Gallipoli Campaign to 1934. Attaturk, President of Turkey, purportedly authored a tribute to the ANZACS who fought, and died, in Turkey: Those heroes that shed blood and lost their lives…. you are now lying in the soil of a...28 Jun That Syria War Power Debate, Continued
...stake (say, protecting the interest of regional stability), and so long as the strikes were limited in scope and duration (i.e. less than “war”), all of these actions could be said to fall within the scope of Article II, whether defense of battlefield allies was among the expressly named interests or not. Yet there are at least three ways in which this ‘third party defense’ notion may be said to go beyond even the broad 2011 OLC conception of presidential power: (1) I am not aware of any previous practice...30 Jan ICTY upholds Genocide Convictions in Srebrenica Case
...that: (1) the Scorpions Unit was deployed in Trnovo from late June through at least the end of July 1995; (2) on 1 July 1995, Borovcanin reported on activities on the Trnovo battlefield, including on an attack involving the Scorpions Unit; (3) Borovcanin was in Trnovo on the Sarajevo front until he was resubordinated on 10 July 1995; (4) a mixed company of joint Republic of Serbian Krajina (“RSK”), Serbian and RS MUP forces was among the units under Borovcanin’s command when he was resubordinated and that during the night...
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...