Autonomous weapons can select targets without human help – now is the time for binding rules

By Elke Schwarz, Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London
Jessica Dorsey, Assistant Professor, Law, Economics and Governance, Utrecht University School of Law, Utrecht University

Government experts are meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, to work towards a possible negotiating mandate on autonomous weapons systems (AWS). These are military systems that can select and engage targets without human intervention.

This major international gathering follows a recent call by the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for urgent controls on these weapons, sometimes dubbed…

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