Author profile: Deane-Peter Baker, Erin Hahn, Peter Lee and Ian MacLeod

Deane-Peter Baker is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at UNSW Canberra, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Kings College London Centre for Military Ethics, and a Research Associate of the Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of Stellenbosch.

Erin Hahn is a Senior National Security Analyst and Supervisor of the Concepts and Assessments Group at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Peter Lee is a Professor of Applied Ethics at the University of Portsmouth whose research spans the ethical and other human aspects of military drone operations, and the ethics of autonomous weapon systems.

Ian MacLeod is a Senior National Security Analyst and Assistant Group Supervisor of the Concepts and Assessments Group at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory.

Introducing Guiding Principles for the Development and Use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

The Guiding Principles are a starting point for discussing how autonomous weapons might be somewhat constrained and what ‘good’ practice might look like.

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