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- Title
LETHAL AUTONOMOUS ROBOTICS: RETHINKING THE DEHUMANIZATION OF WARFARE.
- Authors
Warren, Aiden; Hillas, Alek
- Abstract
To date, many leading diplomats and policy-makers have resisted calls to ban Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). In the absence of international regulation, nation states will need to determine their own responses to the legal accountability questions that LAWS pose. While there are momentous challenges associated with the attainment of moral agency in a legal, political, and technical sense, the dehumanization of warfare is clearly on an upward trajectory and will need to be monitored. The expanding number of roles that robots can perform is already being factored into states' planning and procurement budgets. Owing to its superpower status, decisions made within the United States will influence and define the new global strategic context of dehumanized force structures incorporating LAWS. While we acknowledge that the notion of holding autonomous robotics accountable for their own actions will remain an ongoing challenge, this Article considers the U.S. military justice system to be closely related to its civilian counterpart. As the civilian domain is expected to grapple with distributed layers of responsibility in new technologies that can injure or kill people, like self-driving vehicles, it is clear that both legal systems will need to transition toward a position in which machine intelligence will approach that of humans--necessitating persistent adaptation. In seeking to provide guidance to practitioners, this Article recommends revisiting lessons learned from Military Working Dog (MWD) Handler Teaming that may be applicable to the establishment of training programs and manuals for LAWS operators.
- Subjects
MILITARY robots; LETHAL autonomous weapons; MILITARY science; DEHUMANIZATION; AUTONOMOUS robots; MILITARY robotics; MILITARY weapons
- Publication
UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs, 2018, Vol 22, Issue 2, p218
- ISSN
1089-2605
- Publication type
Article