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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Reinventing the wheel: 3 lessons the AWS debate can learn from existing arms control agreements
Description: For more than a decade, states have met at the UN in Geneva to discuss the governance of autonomous weapon systems (AWS). One pandemic, several real-world cases of artificial intelligence (AI) being used in targeting decisions, and numerous meetings later, there is a growing consensus among states that the challenges posed by AWS should be addressed through both prohibitions and restrictions, a so-called ‘two-tier’ approach. But while there is progress on the basic structure (i.e. two tiers), the actual content of these tiers is debated.
To help states elaborate on possible elements of a two-tiered approach to the governance of A...