Year Ahead - Emerging Technologies and The Collection of Battlefield Evidence

Published on January 18, 2023

Chris Jenks and Eric Jensen offer their opinions on the challenges for ‘responsible AI’ on the battlefield in 2023.

 

They take stock of the expanding interest in both AI on the battlefield and its responsible or broadly ethical uses. Jenks and Jensen thus lay out challenges ranging from jurisdictional differences in approaches to prosecutions surrounding AI and war crimes, the admissibility of data collected by AIs on battlefields, to the transparency (or lack thereof) associated with an AI system’s decision-making processes.

 

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