Sentences with phrase «autonomous military technologies»

Photo: Patricia Lewis, research director for international security at Chatham House (center) introduced the first panel of the Chatham House conference on autonomous military technologies.

[4] For a discussion of potential civil and criminal legal issues posed by the deployment of autonomous military technologies, see Benjamin Kastan, «Autonomous Weapons Systems: A Coming Legal «Singularity»?»

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And by partnering with start - ups moving quickly in fields that have commercial and military applications, such as autonomous technology and cybersecurity, defense contractors gain access to promising new technology that it can turn around and offer to their own customers: the Pentagon and other government agencies.

Created by Dr. Alexander Leveringhaus, who specializes in moral responsibility and robotic weapons, this initiative analyses how militaries can design ethically responsible combat systems using increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous technology.

Last month, a group of over 50 AI scientists, including those from UC Berkeley and the Max Planck Institute, signed an open letter to the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), announcing a boycott against the university due to its recent partnership with South Korea's largest defense company, Hanwha System, to open a Research Center for the Convergence of National Defense and Artificial Intelligence, which will aim to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

It has been reported that the goals of this Center are to «develop artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to be applied to military weapons, joining the global competition to develop autonomous arms.»

At the international level, autonomous technology in military operations has been addressed by the United Nations.

In its first publication on the matter, this 6 - pp backgrounder by James Jay Carafano says autonomous technologies «may well be a defining characteristic of future generations of military systems» and endorses current US policy, which it interprets as reserving the use of lethal force for human operators.

Finally, civilian and military personnel who design, produce, or deploy autonomous weapons technologies may face potential criminal liability for involuntary manslaughter or negligence, in certain situations.

This new NGO's 31 - pp report on artificial intelligence technologies includes a section on the military uses of AI and a UK survey that shows 50 percent of those polled support a ban on fully autonomous weapons.

Although autonomous weapons systems as described herein have not yet been deployed and the extent of their development as a military technology remains unclear, discussion of such questions must begin immediately and not once the technology has been developed and proliferated.

On 5 March, physicist Dr. Mark Avrum Gubrud from the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) briefed the board for almost three hours on emerging military technologies, particularly autonomous weapons systems.