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Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

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Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

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 is part of the Arms Control, Security Trade and Human Rights Team at Amnesty International and an expert in the human rights implications of autonomous weapons in military and policing applications.

Dr. Steve Wright is a professor at Leeds Beckett University who has more than 30 years under his belt working on the proliferation of weapon technologies. Steve is also ICRAC’s specialist on Less Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LLAWS).

We talk about how LLAWS could come back from conflict zones to haunt civil society and we discuss the inherent dangers for policing, border control and the suppression of populations.

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Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

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.

In this interview we probe some of the legal complexities of the relationship between the law and the weapons review process. We also discuss the concept of “meaningful human control”.

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Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

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 stop there. In 2004 Jody took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women’s Initiative with other women Nobel peace laureates and has been the chairwoman ever since. Their aim is to support and promote the work of women around the world working for peace with justice and equality.

In this interview Jody talks about the importance of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and tells us what is most annoying about its opponents.

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Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

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 campaigns. He then explains clearly the steps at the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) from where we are now right through to a new protocol to prohibit the development, production and use of fully autonomous weapons systems. Steve Goose CCW intervention.

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nsharkey

Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).

This is episode 1 of 6 in the CCW Special that kicks off the new official ICRAC Podcast series.

In this episode, after a general introduction explaining the Concentional on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) and Lethal Autonomous Weapons, your host, Professor Noel Sharkey, chair of ICRAC, interviews Michael Meier, the head of the United States delegation to the CCW. DOD directive 3000.09 and US opening statement to the CCW.

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nsharkey

Noel SharkeyPhD, DSc FIET, FBCS CITP FRIN FRSA is Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield and was an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow (2004-2010).