March 26, 2019

Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.

This growing awareness represents a change in the public perception, which is also a driving force behind the implementation and enforcement of IHL. While autonomous weapons systems may be considered “normal” in the statistical sense of the term and thus deemed acceptable, there are still behaviors that IHL prohibits, or that, although not explicitly prohibited, remain forbidden by the dictates of morality, by spiritual values, experience and soldierly virtues.
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