Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Search

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Apply   From and To filters
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Publishers: Show more
Societies Show more
Series: Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

1 results

  • 2 - AWS

  • Afonso Seixas-Nunes, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems
    Published online:
    05 May 2022
    Print publication:
    19 May 2022, pp 45-102

  • Summary

    Chapter 2 aims to analyse the current state of the debate surrounding AWS in order to understand different legal approaches to the topic of AWS. The chapter examines the different arguments (legal and non-legal) put forward in favour of and against a pre-emptive ban of AWS, the several definitions suggested by different states (Ireland, the Netherlands, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States), and the difficulty in finding a common ground to discuss AWS. The definitions offered by states reveal different conceptions of AI, the interaction between human and weapons and opposite approaches to accountability. In this regard, looking at the present stage of AI and at what is expected from AWS, one definition is offered and fully examined. Two elements are crucial for the understanding of AWS: first, that AWS will be designed and programmed for a specific mission and, second, that AWS will be required to be assertive but also adaptable to the mutable circumstances of the battlefield.