| Tittel: | Some reflections on autonomous weapon systems | | Ansvar: | Gentian Zyberi, Fredrik Heldal | | Forfatter: | Zyberi, Gentian  / Heldal, Henrik | | Materialtype: | Artikkel - elektronisk | | Signatur: | Oslo law review | | Utgitt: | Oslo : Universitetsforlaget, 2018 | | Omfang: | S. 70-72 | | Serie: | Oslo law review ; 2/2018 | | Innhold: | This special issue on autonomous weapon systems is the result of a conference entitled ‘The Ethical and Legal Challenges Posed by Autonomous Weapons Systems’ organised on 19 April 2017 by the Norwegian Peace Association and the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, through the Faculty of Law Research Group on Human Rights, Armed Conflicts, and the Law of Peace and Security. The increased military use of unmanned armed vehicles over the past decade, and the possible advent of fully autonomous weapons systems have contributed to what many view as a dramatic change in how we think about and conduct warfare.1 As Neil Davison has put it, ‘the risks of functionally delegating complex tasks—and associated decisions—to sensors and data-driven algorithms is one of the central issues of our time, with serious implications across sectors and societies. Nowhere are these more acute than in relation to decisions to kill, injure and destroy.’2 Technological developments have continuously affected our thinking on the conduct of warfare, but the introduction of fully autonomous weapon systems would transfer for the first time ultimate life-death decisions from humans to machines. While this paradigm change in the conduct of warfare is not imminent or unavoidable, the fact that countries like the US, Russia, the UK, China, South Korea, and Israel are in the process of developing military systems with steadily increasing levels of autonomy means that this stage will be reached in the near future. | | Del av verk: | Oslo law review 2/2018 |
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