Symposium on Military AI and the Law of Armed Conflict: The ‘Need’ for Speed – The Cost of Unregulated AI-Decision Support Systems to Civilians

Published on April 4, 2024



Against the backdrop of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, noted as the most destructive in a century, and other ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Yemen, Iraq and Syria, this contribution is prompted by one element common to these: the reported military use of AI-enabled decision-support systems (AI-DSS). Klonowska defines AI-DSS as “tools that use AI techniques to analyse data, provide actionable recommendations, and ‘assist decision-makers situated at different levels in the chain of command to solve semi-structured and unstructured decision tasks’.” These AI-based systems can be used for the processing of data (such as human intelligence (HUMINT), drone footage, intercepted communication and, in some cases, gathered through  other IS[TA]R capabilities in real time), such as patterns of behaviour of individuals feeding into the military decision-making process with the production, identification and even nomination of targets at speed.

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