Military emerging disruptive technologies (EDTs) have a rapid and major effect on technologies that already exist and disrupt or overturn traditional practices and may revolutionize governmental structures, economies and international security. Margaret Kosal (2019) finds that military applications of EDT have even greater potential than nuclear weapons to radically change the balance of power. The debate, stimulated by the Group of Governmental Experts on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons systems (GGE on LAWS) established by the Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), has focused on artificial intelligence, cyber weapons and drones. A broader discussion should include all military EDTs, inter alia: space and hypersonic weapons; directed-energy weapons/laser and photonic weapons, just to name a few. Though leaders have begun to become aware of legal and ethical implications of the military use of EDTs, these issues remain in the background: security concerns are of pivotal importance and a most of the information and documents are kept confidential and their circulation is restricted. This paper aims to investigate the compliance of military EDTs with international law, international humanitarian law, international human rights law and with ethical principles.

This project proposal No. 101018114—EDT, submitted under the call H2020-MSCA-IF-2020 within the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme, was awarded with the Seal of Excellence of the European Commission.

drones,machine learning,artificial intelligence,Cyber electromagnetic activities (CEMA),Hypersonic weapons,Directed-energy weapons,laser & photonic weapons,Robotics,automation,unmanned autonomous systems (UAS),semi-unmanned autonomous systems,Big data,microelectronics,military,war,conflict,policy,doctrine,Quantum computing,quantum science,Cloud computing,Deep learning,computer vision algorithms,Virtual reality (VR),Augmented reality (AR),5G networks,international law,international human law,international humanitarian law,law of war,geneva conventions

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