1-5 After a fruitful collaborative journey with @AmyErtan, @LaurynasADO and #MatthiasKlaus, our joint article on regulating Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems is out with the journal AI and Ethics.
2-5 Abstract
We explore existing political commitments by states regarding the development and use of lethal autonomous weapon systems. We carry out two background reviewing efforts, the first addressing ethical and legal framings and proposals from recent academic literature...
3-5 ... the second addressing recent formal policy principles as endorsed by states, with a focus on the principles adopted by the United States Department of Defense and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. We then develop two conceptual case studies.
4-5 The first addresses the interrelated principles of explainability and traceability, leading to proposals for acceptable scope limitations to these principles.
5-5 The second considers the topic of deception in warfare and how it may be viewed in the context of ethical principles for lethal autonomous weapon systems.
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Keir Giles absolutely spot on as always:
"There are not just moral but also strictly practical arguments for bringing the war to a conclusion as rapidly as possible. But that means stepping away from the current [Western] approach of delivering too little, just in time..."
"...to keep Ukraine afloat. It means providing what's needed to actually win the war, in order to risk the cost in lives, in order to reduce the risk that Putin will be able to outlast Ukraine and the West."
3-22
"And in order, most of all to make sure that fighting Russia off reaches a successful conclusion, instead of Ukraine being dragged, exhausted, into a stalemate and then a new frozen conflict."
Fully agree with @kvolker's views, as expressed in this @TimesRadio interview.
Journalist: "We still feel that we've not quite gone all in [in helping Ukraine] why is that? (...) it seems we're trying to be half pregnant here."
2-5 Volker: "There is a deliberate policy of incrementalism, of not doing everything we can, and it is as I understand it to avoid risking Russian escalation (...) our leaders are thinking that they are somehow managing this escalation risk. I personally don't agree with that."
3-5 "I think that that is overestimating the importance of what we're doing. Russia is already throwing everything it can at this war, they can't do much more than what they're doing right now, and they already assume that we are already in the war ourselves."
"whether something is historical can always only be answered afterwards. Yet [after my] visit to Kyiv, I could not but conclude that a new page in the book of world history was opened on February 24, 2022. And on that page we read this: democracy is not free."
1-24
"For many outside the west, Russia is not important enough to hate"
A thought-provoking take by Ivan Krastev, a master at short opinion pieces that are interesting and provocative - but often sweeping and sometimes tendentious, as is the case here.
2-24
Krastev's two central arguments is that the Global South disputes Europe's "centrality" in world affairs and also consider that Russia is now a regional power whose wars cannot qualify as a global concern.
3-24
While Krastev documents views he says he encountered, notably in India and in South America, I struggle with the piece because it is entirely uncritical of the views in question and does not put them into any kind of objective perspective.
1-16
Absolutely worth listening to in full: Boris Johnson's powerful speech on support to #Ukraine in the House of Commons.
=> Give them the tools to finish the job
2-16
"there is no conceivable grounds for delay in getting them (tanks) to Ukraine. We need those machines. Abrahams, Challengers, Leopards to make a real difference in real time in the next few weeks, not next year."
3-16
"It's admirable that we're proposing to train Ukrainian fighters to fly NATO fast jets. I hear the caution of my Honourable friend, but it's curious that we're doing this before we’ve even taken the decision, in principle, to give them the planes."