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🗓️ 6 November 2013
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Matthew Waxman and Kenneth Anderson speak at the Hoover Institution on autonomous weapons before a group of journalists.
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0:29.9 | Hello, and welcome to the LawFair podcast, I'm Benjamin Whittes. Today on the podcast, the second |
0:57.2 | installment in a series of presentations made at the Hoover Institution on October 25th |
1:03.5 | to a group of distinguished journalists who were gathered for a media colloquium with |
1:08.2 | its task force on national security and law. This presentation was given by two people |
1:14.0 | who need no introduction to LawFair readers, Matt Waxman who speaks first, and Kenneth |
1:19.8 | Anderson who speaks second. It deals with autonomous weapons and the calls on the part |
1:25.2 | of human rights groups for a preemptive international law ban on autonomous lethal |
1:30.8 | firing power. The discussion is once again edited both for length and because not all |
1:36.9 | of the journalists present consented to have their portions of the audio used. |
1:42.1 | Thanks very much, so this is not a talk about armed drones or UAVs per se, but it does |
1:49.4 | look back on the last ten years history of drones in order to draw some general lessons |
1:54.9 | for U.S. policy and then apply them to some future weapon technologies that Ken and I have |
2:00.9 | been studying. Before talking about those future technologies, let me begin by emphasizing |
2:06.7 | three general points. The first is that historically it's often been the case that new weapon |
2:14.0 | technologies give rise to fears that their emergence, their deployment on the battlefield |
2:19.4 | will destroy the existing legal and ethical constraints on warfare. It will tear down the |
2:26.1 | existing ethical edifice that governs battlefield activity, and this raises questions whether |
2:32.7 | they should just be banned outright. This has been the story with some technologies going |
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