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Podcast: ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog
Episode: Transcending weapon systems: the ethical challenges of AI in military decision support systems
Description: The military decision-making process is facing a challenge by the increasing number of interconnected sensors capturing information on the battlefield. The abundance of information offers advantages for operational planning – if it can be processed and acted upon rapidly. This is where AI-assisted decision-support systems (DSS) enter the picture. They are meant to empower military commanders to make faster and more informed decisions, thus accelerating and improving the decision-making process. Although they are just meant to assist – and not replace – human decision-makers, they pose several ethical challenges which need to be addressed.
In this post, Matthias Klaus, who has a background in AI...