UNODA Occasional Papers No.30

Perspectives on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, November 2017

United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs

• Publisher: United Nations Publications
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9789213628942
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Arms Control
• Index: Politics & International Relations

This publication considers lethal autonomous weapon systems, approaching the issue from five different perspectives. It has been published ahead of the first meeting of the Group of Governmental Experts of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons mandated to examine issues related to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems in the context of the objectives and purposes of the Convention. The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs Occasional Papers are a series of ad hoc publications featuring, in edited form, papers or statements made at meetings, symposiums, seminars, workshops or lectures that deal with topical issues in the field of arms limitation, disarmament and international security.

Table of contents

• Table of contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• A legal perspective: Autonomous weapon systems under international humanitarian law
• A security perspective: Security concerns and possible arms control approaches
• A robotocist’s perspective on lethal autonomous weapon systems
• An ethical perspective on autonomous weapon systems
• A military perspective on lethal autonomous weapon systems