Lethal Autonomous Weapon System
Lethal autonomous weapon , short LAWs (German: Tödliche Autonome Waffen , colloquially killer robot ) are weapon systems that were developed to select and attack military targets (people, systems) without further human intervention. They can be operated in the air, on land, on water, underwater or in space. These weapon systems can independently analyze data, move freely in their area of operation and use the weapons available to them such as. B. control machine guns, cannons or missiles. The development of such autonomously operating systems was only made possible by advances in the field of artificial intelligence in recent years. These robots can either be permanently mounted in certain places, such as on warships, along borders or in the vicinity of military or civilian facilities that are worth protecting. Or they can move independently in a wide variety of ways.
The potential use of these weapon systems raises a number of legal , ethical and security issues which are discussed at the United Nations in Geneva. A ban is not up for discussion.
Negotiations about the outlawing of corresponding robots and drones in Geneva had to be broken off in 2018 without result. States like the USA reject international legislation. Germany's stance is ambivalent. At the beginning of 2020 the German Bundestag spoke out against a ban.
See also
Web links
- Perspectives on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Publication of UNODA from 2017, ISBN 978-92-1-142324-2 (English)
- Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Group of non-governmental organizations trying to preventively ban these weapon systems
- Campaign against autonomous weapon systems supported by Facing Finance eV (German)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Should killer robots be banned? In: sueddeutsche.de . November 13, 2017, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed January 23, 2018]).
- ↑ Jan Dirk Herbermann and Frank Herold: Conference on Killer Robots - The Third Revolution in Warfare. In: Der Tagesspiegel. November 16, 2017. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .
- ^ Ingvild Bode: Negotiations about killer robots in Geneva. In: heise online . November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
- ↑ United Nations Office of Geneva: Where global solutions are shaped for you | Disarmament | 2017 Group of Governmental Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). Retrieved November 18, 2017 .
- ↑ heise online: Killer robot: negotiations ended without an agreement. Retrieved September 10, 2018 (German).
- ^ Andrian Kreye: "Germany plays a double game" . In: sueddeutsche.de . November 29, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 30, 2018]).
- ↑ Felix Richter: Bundestag against the ban on autonomous weapon systems. netzpolitik.org , accessed on July 2, 2020 .