AWS Legal Review Series – Transparency and the Experience of the Netherlands

AWS Legal Review Series – Transparency and the Experience of the Netherlands

AWS Legal Review Series – Transparency and the Experience of the Netherlands This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean Watts provides an overview of the series. In...
AWS Legal Review Series – Introduction

AWS Legal Review Series – Introduction

AWS Legal Review Series – Introduction In recent years, discussions about the legal compliance of various novel military uses of technology have shone a spotlight on something that used to be the obscure province of military lawyers: the legal reviews of new weapons,...
Same but Different: Legal Review of Autonomous Weapons Systems

Same but Different: Legal Review of Autonomous Weapons Systems

Same but Different: Legal Review of Autonomous Weapons Systems Editors’ Note: This post is derived from a presentation given at the 2023 Israel Defense Forces Military Advocate General’s 4th International Conference on the Law of Armed Conflict. In 2024, a decade will...
Year Ahead – The Hurdles to International Regulation of AI Tools

Year Ahead – The Hurdles to International Regulation of AI Tools

Year Ahead – The Hurdles to International Regulation of AI Tools In 2023, non-governmental organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Stop Killer Robots will continue their calls for a new international legal framework to regulate autonomous weapons systems....
Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully

Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully

Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully Time is overdue for moving on from discussing whether autonomous weapons should be banned to looking at how to ensure autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are used in a...