Topic: The unsurprising failure to regulate LAWs

[Libertas]

“At the present rate of progress, the pace of technological development risks overtaking our deliberations,” Switzerland’s Disarmament Ambassador, Felix Baumann, said.

The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons which has 125 parties has been discussing possible limits on the use of lethal autonomous weapons, or LAWS, which are fully machine-operated and use new technology such as artificial intelligence and facial recognition.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres had called for countries to come up with an “ambitious plan” on new rules.

Sources following the talks said that Russia, India and the United States were among the countries who expressed doubts about the need for a new LAWS treaty.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-un-disarmament-idAFKBN2IW1UJ

[patentlymn]

Yeah. No surprise. I do not know where you draw the line anyway.  AI and machine learning weapons may be more discerning than current dumber weapons. Existing weapons home in on heat or radar returns.

I expect to see more loitering AI systems that recognize and destroy radar dishes or certain vehicles. I wonder what a swarm of small hobby sized drones with machine vision would do to a S400 system. They are small and hard to shoot down I imagine.

[Libertas]

It would in my opinion be a mixed bag, spectacular collateral-damage-free successes and nasty oops-our-bad disasters.