The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems : A Humanitarian Law Perspective / Afonso Seixas-Nunes

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By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the legality of the use of autonomous weapons systems under international law. It examines different arguments presented by States, roboticists and scholars to demonstrate the challenges such systems will create for the laws of war. This study examines how technology of warfare seeks to increase the dissociation of risk and communication between weapons and their human operators. Furthermore, it explains how algorithms might give rise to 'errors' on the battlefield that cannot be directly attributed to human operators. Against this backdrop, Dr Seixas-Nunes examines three distinct legal frameworks: the distinction between the legality of weapons and the laws of targeting; different mechanisms of individual accountability and the importance of recovering the category of 'dolus eventualis' for programmers and technicians and, finally, State responsibility for violations of the laws of war caused by weapons' software errors.


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The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems
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The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems - Title page
pp iii-iii
A Humanitarian Law Perspective
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pp iv-iv
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Dedication
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Contents
pp vii-vii
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Acknowledgements
pp viii-ix
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Abbreviations
pp x-xii
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Introduction
pp 1-8
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Select 1 - Introducing Autonomous Systems of War

1 - Introducing Autonomous Systems of War
pp 9-44
The Challenges of Artificial Intelligence
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Select 2 - AWS

2 - AWS
pp 45-102
The Current State of the AWS Debate and of State Policy
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Select 3 - Autonomous Weapon Systems and ‘Autonomy’

3 - Autonomous Weapon Systems and ‘Autonomy’
pp 103-139
Weapons or Killer Robots?
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Select 4 - AWS and the IHL Requirements

4 - AWS and the IHL Requirements
pp 140-190
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Select 5 - Accountability and Liability for the Deployment of Autonomous Weapon Systems

5 - Accountability and Liability for the Deployment of Autonomous Weapon Systems
pp 191-264
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Final Conclusion
pp 265-267
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Index
pp 268-274