Of Killer Robots and Dictates of Public Conscience

Why Autonomous Weapons Systems Will Forever Change Warfare and How Ethics Could Serve to Ban Them Under International Law

  • Pedro Rogerio Borges de Carvalho PUC-Rio, The University of Edinburgh (School of Law)
Keywords: international security, international law, killer robots, autonomous weapons systems, artificial intelligence

Abstract


Law student Pedro Rogerio Borges de Carvalho addresses the inclusion of autonomous weapons systems in modern conflicts and how a decades old clause could prevent their takeover.

Published
31-Mar-2020
How to Cite
de Carvalho, P. R. (2020). Of Killer Robots and Dictates of Public Conscience. Leviathan, 10(1). Retrieved from http://journals.ed.ac.uk/leviathan/article/view/4073
Issue
Vol 10 No 1 (2019): Change
Section
International

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