Autonomous weapon systems and responsibility gaps: a taxonomy

NG Wood - Ethics and Information Technology, 2023 - Springer
A classic objection to autonomous weapon systems (AWS) is that these could create so-
called responsibility gaps, where it is unclear who should be held responsible in the event …

Autonomous weapon systems: A clarification

NG Wood - Journal of Military Ethics, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Due to advances in military technology, there has been an outpouring of research on what
are known as autonomous weapon systems (AWS). However, it is common in this literature …

Autonomous weapons systems: New frameworks for individual responsibility

N Jain - Autonomous weapons systems: law, ethics …, 2016 - scholars.northwestern.edu
The development of autonomous weapons systems (AWS) poses unique challenges for the
attribution of individual responsibility. Criminal responsibility generally takes the individual …

Present futures: concluding reflections and open questions on autonomous weapons systems

N Bhuta, S Beck, R Geiß - Autonomous weapons systems: Law …, 2016 - research.ed.ac.uk
The debate concerning the law, ethics and policy of autonomous weapons systems (AWS)
remains at an early stage, but one of the consistent emergent themes is that of uncertainty …

Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Contextual Nature of Hors de Combat Status

S Umbrello, NG Wood - Information, 2021 - mdpi.com
Autonomous weapons systems (AWS), sometimes referred to as “killer robots”, are receiving
ever more attention, both in public discourse as well as by scholars and policymakers. Much …

Coupling levels of abstraction in understanding meaningful human control of autonomous weapons: A two-tiered approach

S Umbrello - Ethics and Information Technology, 2021 - Springer
The international debate on the ethics and legality of autonomous weapon systems (AWS),
along with the call for a ban, primarily focus on the nebulous concept of fully autonomous …

The moral case for the development and use of autonomous weapon systems

E Riesen - Journal of Military Ethics, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) are artificial intelligence systems that can
make and act on decisions concerning the termination of enemy soldiers and installations …

Leveraging autonomous weapon systems: realism and humanitarianism in modern warfare

A Lavazza, M Farina - Technology in Society, 2023 - Elsevier
Autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are considered particularly dangerous because they
could make war somewhat independent of humans. Should that be the case-some argue …

Autonomous weapon systems and jus ad bellum

A Blanchard, M Taddeo - Ai & Society, 2024 - Springer
In this article, we focus on the scholarly and policy debate on autonomous weapon systems
(AWS) and particularly on the objections to the use of these weapons which rest on jus ad …

Debating autonomous weapon systems, their ethics, and their regulation under international law

K Anderson, MC Waxman - 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
An international public debate over the law and ethics of autonomous weapon systems
(AWS) has been underway since 2012, with those urging legal regulation of AWS under …