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10/04/2018

Autonomous weapons systems: chronicle of an international and prospective debate within the United States (DIEEEO41-2018)

As of 2016, a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on autonomous weapons systems was established by the Fifth Review Conference of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). This group has been mandated with examining the impact of emerging technologies endowed with autonomy for the selection and attack of targets in military, security and defense areas.

Although they are a type of high-tech weapons or robot still non-existent, they represent a catalogue of dilemmas and challenges into framework of the International Human Rights Law and the International Humanitarian Law. Therefore, experts from around the world have been invited by the CCW Secretariat to attend and contribute to these multilateral debates within the United Nations.

Taking into account that the first session of the group was in November 2017, this paper offers the reader a mapping of the debate held, highlighting the main contributions made by the delegations of the State Parties as well as explaining what main obstacles are to experts getting agreements or common understandings related to research, development and innovation of these systems.

Author: Milton J. Meza Rivas

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