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Some countries, human rights organizations, artificial intelligence experts and academics have expressed doubts about the moral, ethical, and legal development and use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). The United States, United Kingdom, Israel, Russia and many other countries have disagreed with these concerns. This paper will argue that (1) LAWS already exist and are in use by many countries for both defensive and offensive purposes and (2) LAWS cannot be legislated away; the technology is pervasive from smart cars and autonomous ships to military self-protection systems. As long as countries and their respective militaries follow internationally accepted norms when using LAWS such as the Laws of War, principles of war, and have a systematic legal review process, militaries will have the sufficient and necessary controls to address those who criticize and oppose their development and use.
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Lailari, G. (2021). Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: An Advocacy Paper. In: Zallio, M., Raymundo Ibañez, C., Hernandez, J.H. (eds) Advances in Human Factors in Robots, Unmanned Systems and Cybersecurity. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 268. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79997-7_6
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