Essays about: "CCW"

Found 5 essays containing the word CCW.

  1. 1. States sentiment towards Artificial Intelligence in international settings

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Viktor Skog; [2024]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : AI is creating a global societal paradigm shift since it is a general purpose technology with seemingly unstoppable potential. Although large economic and societal advantages seem apparent, the technology is also recognised to pose an existential threat to humanity. READ MORE

  2. 2. Security or Security Issue of Tomorrow? Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems : A critical discourse analysis of securitization of LAWS in German political-institutional dabates

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för globala politiska studier (GPS)

    Author : Ronja Schahira Kaya Metzger; [2021]
    Keywords : Lethal autonomous Weapons Systems; Securitization; Convention on Conventional Weapons; CCW; weapons control; Germany;

    Abstract : In this thesis, the role of Legal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) in the German institutional-political landscape is examined. The effort guiding the thesis is to uncover and understand how LAWS have been constructed in the German institutional-political discourse from 2017-2021. READ MORE

  3. 3. Artificial Intelligence in Lethal Automated Weapon Systems - What's the Problem? : Analysing the framing of LAWS in the EU ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI, the European Parliament Resolution on autonomous weapon systems and the CCW GGE guiding principles.

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Nicole Beltran; [2020]
    Keywords : Human Rights; lethal automated weapon systems; killer robots; international regu-lation; human dignity; discourse analysis; framing; human-machine nexus; artificial intelligence; policy analysis;

    Abstract : Lethal automated weapon systems (LAWS) are developed and deployed by a growing number of state and non-state actors, although no international legally binding framework exists as of yet. As a first attempt to regulate LAWS the UN appointed a group of governmental experts (GGE) to create the guiding principles on the issue of LAWS AI. READ MORE

  4. 4. Securitisation as a Norm-Setting Framing in The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Aleksandra Daynova; [2019]
    Keywords : securitisation; framing; normative; lethal autonomous weapons systems; transnational advocacy networks;

    Abstract : Since 2009, International Relations scholars have researched the role of big advocacy groups in giving access to the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots in the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). To further these studies, the focus of this thesis is on the progress of negotiations for the 6-year period since the issue has been adopted, asking the question – How has the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots chosen to frame lethal autonomous weapons systems, and how successful has that framing been for the period of 2013 to 2019? I argue that advocates undertook a normative securitisation process to frame the existential threat lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) pose to human beings. READ MORE

  5. 5. Autonomous Weapons – the “Kalashnikovs” of Tomorrow? An Analysis of the Meetings of Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems within the framework of the United Nations' Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Weronika Alexandra Perlinski; [2018-02-09]
    Keywords : Global Studies; Warfare; Human Rights; International Relations;

    Abstract : After the invention of gunpowder and the development of nuclear weapons, the world faces a third revolution in warfare: lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS). Since 2014, states, scientists and civil society activist have been discussing the risks of such systems and possibilities to regulate them within the framework of the United Nations’ Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). READ MORE