Autonomous weapons and international law

The introduction of artificial intelligence and robotics to future scenarios of warfare is posing new challenges to national and international codes of law, ethics, and human rights. Technological advances are fast outpacing the deliberative process of public debate and law-making that should determine the rules for the design and use of such lethal technologies. Ongoing talks at the United Nations to regulate such weapons are raising a host of complex questions around who is responsible for their development and deployment on the battlefield of the future.
The fifth annual Justice Stephen Breyer lecture on international law addressed these issues from legal, ethical, and military perspectives.
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[@SkyFather]

very informative. I wish they were given more time.

[@philsarazen6619]

Enable a computer to adjudicate international law. The computer will be open source. When international conflict occurs, the computer will amalgamate all the peace proposals from around the world and provide for conflict resolution. All those implementing the computer’s amalgamation will wear the latest lie detector and mind reading devices so as to ensure the best choice of personnel. The computer will use the data from the amalgamated peace proposals to expand the law and or provide avenues by which rogue states such as the US can participate. If we can submit into a computer all the human information (wisdom based experience) such that it becomes our collective wisdom, then it will most on most occasions out do any one of us as socially brilliant as we think we are.

[@aps-pictures9335]

Opening speaker’s arguments were very weak and could use work, less dramatic and more substance would improve their performance.

[@sinOsiris]

sure agreement next thing you know.... overtaken overridden abandonement ----