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15 Mar Deglobalization and the Road to . . . War
...last, there are still major questions about what form that conflict would take. Could we possibly see a return to massive armies hurtling themselves at each other on defined battlefields? I’d be willing to engage suggestions to that effect, but it seems intuitively unlikely against the backdrop not just of nuclear weapons but also of the battlefield robots that all Ken Anderson fans will be familiar with. (Nor would it look like the asymmetric warfare we saw during Cold War sideshows and now in Iraq and Afghanistan.) So what’s the...01 Jun Ken also Blogging at Volokh, but not Leaving OJ
...areas not really related to law, but raise topics appropriate to CTLab. You should check out CTLab – it has wonderful academic symposia, an active blog, and many fascinating features that go far outside of the usual international law frame on group violence. Anyway, I am devoted to OJ, and want to be clear that joining up with Volokh is not at all about leaving OJ. Alas, there will be many, many a post devoted to robots and war, and I’ll start talking about microfinance and development finance again. So...14 May Brookings Conference on Legislating Counterterrorism
...framework for counterterrorism – which is to say, a framework of domestic law for things like detention, interrogation, FISA, etc. My paper, which I’ll post up if Brookings will let me once complete, is forward looking with respect to the tactics of counterterrorism, specifically targeted killing, particularly by Predators and advancing robotic technologies. (Yes, dear readers, you knew I would work around to robots eventually.) My fundamental observation to the Obama administration is that, to judge by Campaign Obama and Administration Obama, it embraces targeted killing as a useful method...
29 Nov Do AI Decision Support Systems ‘Support’ Humans in Military Decision-Making on the Use of Force?
...‘killer robots’”. While AI DSS developed around the world are not inherently unlawful, the ways in which they have reportedly been used suggest that humans risk not having the opportunity to exercise the necessary level of agency. For instance, accounts of the IDF using AI DSS in ways that prioritize the quantity of targets or where humans appear to ‘rubber stamp’ targets within seconds suggest that in many contexts of use, human decision-making appears to be not positively ‘supported’ by AI systems. The debate at the UN remains focused on...