Publication

21 Feb 2018

This publication explores the risks autonomous technology (AT) poses to global society. More specifically, the text’s authors discuss 1) what the terms ‘Artificial Intelligence’ (AI) and ‘autonomous technology’ (AT) denote, as well as the problems that come with using them; 2) Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and how they relate to AI and AT; 3) international discussion on these issues that have taken place within the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (UN CCW) framework; 4) ways to weaponize AT; 5) peacetime threats created by AT, and more.

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Author Regina Surber
Series ICT4Peace Publications
Publisher ICT4Peace Foundation
Zurich Hub for Ethics and Technology (ZHET)
Copyright © 2018 ICT4Peace
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