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J.F.R. (Hans) Boddens Hosang
| Mar 6, 2024 | AoW Posts, AWS Legal Review Series, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
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...
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Camilla Cooper
| Nov 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting
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...
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Carolyn Sharp
| Nov 5, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting, Weapons Law
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...
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Sep 23, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
LAWS Debate at the United Nations: Moving Beyond Deadlock The United Nations is once again hosting a Group of Governmental Experts tasked to report on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Further debate on this subject at the...
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Jun 10, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Targeting
The Kargu-2 Autonomous Attack Drone: Legal & Ethical Dimensions In March 2021, a UN Panel of Experts on Libya reported a possible use of lethal autonomous weapons systems—such as the STM Kargu-2—which “were programmed to attack targets without requiring data...
