Autonomous Weapons Systems

Weapons systems that autonomously target and apply lethal force—AWS—threaten to subject people to unethical and unlawful treatment. AWS pose the additional risk of launching us into yet another arms race in which these technologies are deployed at scale. CRAiEDL researches boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable uses of robotics and AI in military applications.

Graduating a Generation of Engineering Students Equipped to Consider the Ethics of Building Lethal Autonomous Weapons

January 1, 2018

Targeting Trust: A Workshop on the Nature and Role of Trust in Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) Policy Development

January 1, 2016

How to Engage the Public on the Ethics and Governance of Autonomous Weapon Systems

Meaningful Human Control and Dual-Use Technologies

Towards a Canadian Policy Position on Meaningful Human Control and Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems