Extra-legal principles can inform policymaking and influence behaviour so that the use of armed drones generates fewer injustices in the future.
Legal scholar Jessica Dorsey talks about debates in technology, particularly drone warfare, accountability and transparency, as well as EU and US approaches.
The US and Israel dominated the initial wave of drone proliferation, yet others have since joined in supplying weaker states with the lethal instruments in what constitutes a second wave.
Security cooperation programmes have provided a pathway to continued intervention, the ‘remoteness’ of which applies only to the intervening actor, not local communities.
Developers and military commanders should not merely ask which military tasks can be automated, but also ask where human judgment ought to be preserved.
Legal questions surrounding the use of metadata in targeting means that an adequate, independent post-strike investigation is the bare minimum of what ‘feasible’ precautions should include.
The Syrian conflict is an example of global and regional powers waging remote warfare against their adversaries with minimum human and capital costs.
Including AI in weapons systems is important not because of the emergence of autonomous machines, but because human control is becoming compromised in human-machine interactions.
Remote warfare operations in Yemen have led to the deaths of thousands of civilians, along with having significant economic, educational and mental health implications for impacted communities.
This collection successfully bridges the gap between IR, Science and Technology Studies and New Materialism, highlighting topical examples and policy debates.
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