Lawfare Archive: Matt and Ken Speak at Hoover on Autonomous Weapons
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🗓️ 9 December 2023
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From November 6, 2013: On October 25, 2013, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a first-rate group of journalists focused on national security legal issues and the work of Hoover’s Jean Perkins Task Force on National Security and Law. The first session of the day, Ben’s talk on Speaking the Law, ran as episode of the podcast on Sunday. The second session, the subject of this episode, was a talk by Matt and Ken about autonomous weapons and the calls for a preemptive ban in international law on so-called "killer robots." The session has been edited both for length and because not all of the journalists consented to having their remarks made public.
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| 1:07.3 | lawfare archive for December 9th, 2023. This past week Ashley Deeks wrote an article in lawfare unpacking why the US and China |
| 1:14.8 | have failed to make progress toward an agreement to keep autonomy out of nuclear command and |
| 1:18.4 | control systems. |
| 1:19.8 | Meanwhile the United States, Russia, Australia, Israel, and others have argued that no new international law is needed to address autonomy and warfare. |
| 1:27.0 | And over the summer, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks announced the U.S. military would field a tradable autonomous systems at scale multiple |
| 1:34.5 | thousands in the coming two years so as to compete with China. |
| 1:38.3 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from November 6, 2013, in which Benjamin Wittis shared edited audio of a |
| 1:45.7 | talking by Kenneth Anderson and Matthew Waxman on autonomous weapons and calls for a preemptive |
| 1:50.5 | ban in international law on so-called killer robots. |
| 1:54.0 | Hello. Hello. Hello and welcome to the Law Fair Podcast I'm Benjamin Wittis. |
| 2:07.0 | Today on the podcast, the second installment in a series of presentations made at the Hoover Institution on October 25th |
| 2:17.0 | to a group of distinguished journalists Hoover gathered for a media colloquium with its task force on national security and law. |
| 2:25.6 | This presentation was given by two people who need no introduction to law fair readers, |
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