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DESCRIPTION:Un exposé par Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer\, Boursier Postdoct
 oral Banting.  Résumé  (en anglais seulement) The US Congress anticipated 
 that “by 2015\, one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles will b
 e unmanned”\, a change described as a 'revolution in the art of land warfa
 re'. At present\, these armed robots are remotely controlled by humans\, a
 nd the ethical issues involved are already complex. On one hand\, robots h
 ave certain advantages: the ability to save lives (those of the men they r
 eplace) and a superior performance at a lower cost if we take the example 
 of UCAVs. On the other hand\, they raise serious concerns including a redu
 ced capacity for discernment and hence\, discrimination (jus in bello)\; a
  tendency towards the sanitarization of war\, giving the impression that i
 t is “cleaner” than it really is\; and\, as a result\, a lowering of the t
 hreshold for the purposes of resorting to armed violence (including possib
 ly at the level of the jus ad bellum). The situation is further complicate
 d with the development of autonomous models with a capacity for “judgment”
  and decision-making\, for example to shoot at targets without human inter
 vention.  The interesting question here is how current development program
 s will incorporate the principle of discrimination between combatant and n
 oncombatant\, and the principle of proportionality\, all of which are not 
 objective measures but results of human judgment. In the case of a mistake
 n shot fired by an autonomous robot\, who should bear responsibility? Whil
 e researchers are thinking of ways to treat robots as legal quasi-agents\,
  they are not yet\, and probably will not be subjects of international hum
 anitarian law for many years to come.
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LOCATION:NCDH 609\, Pavillon Chancellor-Day\, CA\, QC\, Montréal\, H3A 1W9\
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SUMMARY:Robotization of Armed Conflicts: Ethical and Legal Challenges
URL:/law/fr/channels/event/robotization-armed-conflict
 s-ethical-and-legal-challenges-218348
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