Thompson Chengeta is a European Research Council Fellow on Drone Violence and Artificial Intelligence Ethics at the University of Southampton where he undertakes research and project-related leadership on autonomous weapon systems. His PhD thesis (University of Pretoria) was on international law, ethics and autonomous weapon systems (AWS) while his LLM thesis (Harvard Law School) was on elements that define human control over AWS. Thompson is an executive board member of the Foundation for Responsible Robotics and also serves as an expert member of the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapon Systems and the International Committee for Robot Arms Control.