International Committee for Robot Arms Control Statement to the UN GGE Meeting 2018 Delivered by Prof. Noel Sharkey, on 11 April 2018 Mr Chairperson, We have been very pleased with this morning’s session as states begin to contemplate a move towards policies on the human control of weapons systems. On a pedantic note: we cannot…
Guidelines for the human control of weapons systems [PDF] Authored by Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC[1] Since 2014, high contracting parties to the CCW have expressed interest and concern about the meaningful human control of weapons systems. There is an extensive scientific and engineering literature on the dynamics of human-machine interaction and human supervisory control…
International Committee for Robot Arms Control Statement to the UN GGE Meeting 2018 Delivered by Prof. Noel Sharkey, on 10 April 2018 Mr. Chairperson, There have been very useful and interesting discussions this morning. I speak here as chair of an academic NGO: the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) and as a member…
The Icelandic Institute for Intelligent Machines (IIIM) has issued an ethical policy that makes them the first Artificial Intelligence research and development group to reject the development of technologies intended for military operations. IIIM is an independent research institute affiliated with Reykjavik University in Reykjavik, Iceland “It is only fitting that a research center in Iceland…
Download file | Play in new window | Duration: 9:53 Interviews with: Ryan Gariepy, Chief Technical Officer, Clearpath Robotics Stuart Russell, Professor of Artificial Intelligence, University of California at BerkeleyThis is episode 6 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series.In this episode we discuss the social responsibility…
Interviews with: Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty International, Advocate/Advisor in Arms Control, Security Trade, and Human Rights Steve Wright, Reader in the School of Social Science at Leeds Beckett University, and ICRAC Member This is episode 4 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Rasha Abdul Rahim…
This is episode 4 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Nehal Bhuta is a highly respected Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He was one of the experts chosen to speak at the 2015 CCW Informal Meeting of Experts on LAWS….
This is episode 3 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Jody Williams has been a humanitarian campaigner for most of her adult life. In 1991 she began coordinating the successful Campaign to Ban Landmines and received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1997. But she didn’t…
This is episode 2 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series. Steve Goose has been heavily involved in the prohibition of three nasty weapons systems. In this podcast he tells us about the discussions at the CCW are panning out and compares the pace with previous…