![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() We can't build machines that can make those sorts of subtle distinctions. "From a legal perspective, it violates internationally humanitarian law - in particular, various principles like distinction and proportionality. "I'm very concerned that we will completely change the character of war if we hand over the killing to machines. I'm pretty sure historians will look back at the Ukrainian conflict and say how drones and autonomy and AI started to transform the way we fought war - and not in a good way," he says. "AI is transforming all aspects of our life and so, not surprisingly, it's starting to transform warfare. Walsh says other autonomous weapons that are starting to be used in the Ukraine conflict should be banned. In addition to his concerns about the morality of such weapons, Prof. The UNSW academic is banned from Russia for questioning the claims of developing an AI-powered anti-personnel land mine that was more humanitarian. Walsh says AI-powered autonomous weapons should now also be prohibited. The rules of war, widely accepted under the Geneva Convention that was first established in 1864, dictate what can and cannot be done during armed conflicts and aim to curb the most brutal aspects of war by setting limits on weapons and tactics that can be employed.Ĭhemical and biological weapons have been banned for use in conflict since 1925, following the horrors of the First World War, and Prof. That is the view of Scientia Professor Toby Walsh, chief scientist at UNSW's AI Institute, in discussion as part of UNSW's 'Engineering the Future' podcast series. Lethal autonomous weapons need to be added to the UN's Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the open-ended treaty regulating new forms of weaponry. ![]()
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