Episode 1 - What are lethal autonomous weapons?

Paola Gaeta and Abhimanyu George Jain interview Maaike Verbruggen, Doctoral Researcher at the Institute for European Studies. Maaike Verbruggen is an expert on military innovation, emerging military technologies and artificial intelligence. In this introductory episode, she explains what lethal autonomous weapons are, what kind of autonomous weapons already exist, and what kind might be developed in the future, as well as how they are currently regulated. Maaike Verbruggen is the author of ‘ Mapping the Development of Autonomy in Weapon Systems ’ (with Vincent Boulanin) (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2017) For more information on the Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes research project, visit our website

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Episode 1 - What are lethal autonomous weapons? is an episode from Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know by Graduate Institute, Geneva.

This episode is 00:26:42 long.

This episode was published on Aug 4, 2021.

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