The legality and accountability of autonomous weapon systems : a humanitarian law perspective / Afonso Seixas-Nunes, University of Oxford.
2022
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Title
The legality and accountability of autonomous weapon systems : a humanitarian law perspective / Afonso Seixas-Nunes, University of Oxford.
Imprint
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Description
1 online resource (xii, 274 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Formatted Contents Note
Introducing autonomous systems of war : the challenges of artificial intelligence
AWS : the current state of the AWS debate and of state policy
Autonomous weapons systems and 'autonomy' : weapons or killer robots?
AWS and the IHL requirements
Accountability and liability for the deployment of autonomous weapon systems
Final conclusion.
AWS : the current state of the AWS debate and of state policy
Autonomous weapons systems and 'autonomy' : weapons or killer robots?
AWS and the IHL requirements
Accountability and liability for the deployment of autonomous weapon systems
Final conclusion.
Summary
By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legality of the use of autonomous weapons systems under international law. It examines different arguments presented by States, roboticists and scholars to demonstrate the challenges such systems will create for the laws of war. This study examines how technology of warfare seeks to increase the dissociation of risk and communication between weapons and their human operators. Furthermore, it explains how algorithms might give rise to 'errors' on the battlefield that cannot be directly attributed to human operators. Against this backdrop, Dr Seixas-Nunes examines three distinct legal frameworks: the distinction between the legality of weapons and the laws of targeting; different mechanisms of individual accountability and the importance of recovering the category of 'dolus eventualis' for programmers and technicians and, finally, State responsibility for violations of the laws of war caused by weapons' software errors.
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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9781009090001 (ebook)
9781316514832 (hardback)
9781009088381 (paperback)
9781316514832 (hardback)
9781009088381 (paperback)
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