LAWS regulation looks as though it may be an object lesson in the risks of seeing ideational social-structural phenomena as material and immutable.
The Guiding Principles are a starting point for discussing how autonomous weapons might be somewhat constrained and what ‘good’ practice might look like.
The advent of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) presents States with new political, technological, operational, legal and ethical challenges.
With the current banphobia in Geneva, it is important note that those who seek a regulation, maintenance of human control over LAWS or a ban seek the same thing.
Technology offers military decision-makers an alluring appeal to technological fixes to ethico-political dilemmas of killing in war.
A world that emphasizes the role of efficiency-driven technological solutions could produce a universe in which humanity is terrorized by its own technological offspring.
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