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05 Apr Weekday News Wrap: Friday, April 5, 2013
...on International Law and the Future of Peace upon receiving the Prominent Women in International Law award during yesterday’s ASIL Women in International Law Interest Group Luncheon. Foreign Policy outlines the dangers of low-tech warfare in Why Sticks and Stones Will Beat Our Drones. The Christian Science Monitor has an article discussing the options available to the EU in response to Hungary’s latest instalment of controversial constitutional amendments. EU authorities have also expressed concern over legislative proposals in Egypt to curtain civil society. Syria has stepped up propaganda efforts against...01 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Friday, March 1, 2013
...moving ahead with its plans to establish a North Korea trade zone. The ruling on compelling the United States to hand over evidence against Kim Dotcom, accused of mass copyright infringement, money laundering and internet piracy, has been overturned by the court of appeal in New Zealand. In case you were hoping to submit public comment to proposed changes to the IAHCR, the deadline is today. In light of Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing, Esquire has a post about why the drones used by the US are just a sideshow....
13 Apr From Infinite Scroll to Command and Control: What Big Tech’s Courtroom Reckoning Means for Military AI Governance
...dependency Seemingly so far from the world of drones, bombs, and tanks, what can these two verdicts tell us about the significance of platform companies for the global governance military AI? Two lessons particularly stand out. The first is obvious but no less important for being so. It concerns the practical challenges of accountability. Accountability has emerged as a key principle across national and international governance initiatives, underscoring the importance of delineating clear lines of responsibility for the use of military AI systems. Central to achieving accountability is understanding how...08 Jun Weekly News Wrap: Monday, June 8, 2015
...United Nations resolutions. Vietnam is in talks with European and U.S. contractors to buy fighter jets, maritime patrol planes and unarmed drones, sources said, as it looks to beef up its aerial defenses in the face of China’s growing assertiveness in disputed waters. Europe Group of Seven (G7) leaders vowed at a summit in the Bavarian Alps on Sunday to keep sanctions against Russia in place until President Vladimir Putin and Moscow-backed separatists fully implement the terms of a peace deal for Ukraine. Dutch Foreign Minister Bert Koenders will discuss...
16 Jul Symposium on PMSCs: AI Broke the Code – The International Code of Conduct for Private Security Service Providers and Emerging Technologies
...ecosystems—integrating AI-powered surveillance, facial recognition, behavioral analytics, predictive policing algorithms, and biometric identification tools into their service portfolios. One need only look to Anduril Industries, a U.S.-based defense technology firm founded by Silicon Valley engineers and former military operatives, to grasp the scale of this shift. The company develops autonomous surveillance towers, sensor-laden autonomous drones and underwater systems, and is now even helping integrate augmented-reality headsets for frontline troops. At the heart of its operations lies the Lattice platform—a powerful dual-use AI-enabled operating system that fuses sensor inputs across domains,...
20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Introduction
...to Iran. Examples include AI-enabled drones, autonomous and semi-autonomous defense systems, machine-learning tools used in targeting, AI-supported cyber operations, generative AI in information operations and cognitive warfare, and many others. All of these developments raise an urgent question: how does international law, and especially international humanitarian law (IHL), regulate these technologies, and what limits does it impose on their development and use? This symposium brings together four perspectives on distinct aspects of that question. It also offers an early glimpse of the forthcoming Oxford University Press volume International Law and...09 Dec Weekly News Wrap: December 9, 2013
...unmanned aircraft to monitor the volatile border with Rwanda and Uganda, the first time UN peacekeepers have deployed surveillance drones. France said it will start disarming fighters in the Central African Republic by force if necessary, as relative calm returned to the capital Bangui following three days of heavy fighting between Christians and Muslims. Europe The Vatican refused to provide the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child with information on the Church’s internal investigations into the sexual abuse of children by clergy, saying that its policy was to...