The talk will address proportionality in IHL and AI systems.
About this event
With the development of weapons systems embedded in AI a lot of questions have been asked, namely if these systems will be able to comply with the rules of international humanitarian law. This talk will focus on the rule of proportionality and supervised autonomous systems. States seem to have abandoned the idea of autonomous weapon systems and embrace the need of human supervision before lethal force is deployed by an AWS. However, supervised autonomous seems might require a different understanding of the duty of 'constant care' and the rule of proportionality.
Coffee and tea will be served at 10.30am.
Location
2.05A, University of Westminster - Little Titchfield Street Campus, 4–12 Little Titchfield Street, London W1W 7BY
Programme
- Speaker: Dr Afonso Seixas-Nunes (Saint Louis University School of Law)
- Chair: Dr Marco Longobardo (University of Westminster)
Speakers
Dr Afonso Seixas-Nunes
Dr Afonso Seixas-Nunes is a Jesuit Priest since 2010 who graduated in Law by the Portuguese Catholic University (Porto). Afonso has degrees in Philosophy (Portuguese Catholic University, Braga) and Theology (Pontificia Universita Gregoriana, Italy). He has a Master’s in International Law and Human Rights by the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in International Humanitarian Law at the School of Law of the University of Essex. He's the author of The Legitimacy and Accountability for the Deployment of Autonomous Weapon System under International Humanitarian Law, published by CUP in 2022. He is an Assistant Professor at the Saint Louis University Law School and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies.
Dr Marco Longobardo
Dr Marco Longobardo is a Reader in International Law at the University of Westminster. He undertook his doctoral studies at the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the author of The Use of Armed Force in Occupied Territory (Cambridge University Press, 2018), for which he was awarded the 2021 Paul Reuter Prize. He is the Reviews Editor of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies and a member of the advisory boards of the International Community Law Review and of the Journal du Droit Transnational.
