The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Humanitarian Law Perspective - Tapa dura

Seixas-Nunes, Afonso

 
9781316514832: The Legality and Accountability of Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Humanitarian Law Perspective
Tapa dura
ISBN 10: 1316514838 ISBN 13: 9781316514832
Editorial: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Sinopsis

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.

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Afonso Seixas-Nunes, Jesuit Priest, graduated in law, Philosophy (Vitorino Sousa Alves Award) and Theology, and holds an Mst in Human Rights from the London School of Economics and a PhD from the University of Essex. He was a visiting scholar at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and since July 2021 he joined the University of St Louis School of Law (SLU-Law).

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Cambridge University Press
Año de publicación
2022
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1316514838
ISBN 13 
9781316514832
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Número de páginas
288
Contacto del fabricante
Cambridge University Press
https://www.cambridge.org/

Via Honduras,15
Pomezia
Italia
71
Italia