Episode 9 - How Will Lethal Autonomous Weapons Change the Future of Armed Conflict?

Paola Gaeta and Abhimanyu George Jain interview Dr. Kenneth Payne, Reader in International Relations at King’s College London, where he conducts research in political psychology. In this episode, he talks about how lethal autonomous weapons systems will affect military strategy and change the nature of armed conflict. Kenneth Payne is the author of I, Warbot: The Dawn of Artificially Intelligent Conflict (Hurst, 2021), Strategy, Evolution, and War: From Apes to Artificial Intelligence (Georgetown University Press, 2018), ‘ Artificial Intelligence: A Revolution in Strategic Affairs? ’ 60(5) Survival (2018) 7-32, and ‘ Strategy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence ’ (with Kareem Ayoub), 39(5-6) Journal of Strategic Studies (2016) 793-819. For more information on the Lethal Autonomous Weapons and War Crimes research project, visit our website

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Episode 9 - How Will Lethal Autonomous Weapons Change the Future of Armed Conflict? is an episode from Lethal Autonomous Weapons: 10 things we want to know by Graduate Institute, Geneva.

This episode is 00:33:55 long.

This episode was published on Nov 24, 2021.

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