Join us on a journey into the realms of our digital society: In the new season of Exploring Digital Spheres our SET-project research team travels to five different countries on three continents in order to explore the intersection of sustainability and digitalisation and talk to local experts about their endeavours. In the first season of the podcast you got to know HIIG researchers and their diverse research backgrounds. We asked them how our digital society works and what its future might look like. Every other episode, the researchers entered into a dialogue with other digital mavericks!
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Autonomous weapons
Frank Sauer on how to regulate autonomous weapon systems
Suppose they gave war and nobody has to come. The idea of autonomous weapons is tempting for some and troubling for most, because it raises many ethical issues. Yet, what exactly do we mean when saying 'autonomous weapon systems' (AWS) – does it mean we're really taking the human out of the loop?
Thomas C. Bächle and Frank Sauer met at HIIG to talk about the question of how to regulate these systems, how China or the UK deal with this, what the future of weapons looks like, what the CCW does and much more.
In this episode:
4:30 Sauer's article on 'killer robots'
5:40 ICRAC
7:00 About the The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)
14:08 China's Definition of LAWS
15:05 Also see this article on autonomous weapons by Thomas Bächle and Christoph Ernst
28:30 "Put human dignity first" (Article by Frank Sauer)
40:45 Check out Frank Sauer's podcast: "Sicherheitshalber"