Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part II

Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part II

Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part II The danger that cyber compromises pose to lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS) is that operators can make the right decision based on false information. Humans may remain in command...
Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part I

Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part I

Hollow Control: Cyber Compromise and Human Judgment in Lethal Autonomous Weapons – Part I Observing that modern warfare is ever more reliant on networks, data, sensors, and software, all of which are vulnerable to attack, has the novelty factor of a field manual...
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...
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...
Cognitive Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CLAWS)

Cognitive Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CLAWS)

Cognitive Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CLAWS) With the debut of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) in combat, opponents of LAWS have called on States to fast-track the creation of international law that either bans the use of these weapons or mandates...