[Lisa_seminaires] Fwd: Autonomous Weapons talk by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer (French Ministry of Defense) Fri Mar 2 3PM Z345

Michael Noukhovitch mnoukhov at gmail.com
Lun 26 Fév 14:26:16 EST 2018


CRE and Martin Gilbert are hosting a talk on the subject of autonomous
weapons from a different perspective this Friday for all those interested
(note that the talk will be given in english but the QA afterwards is
bilingual). The speaker, *Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer*, is the director of*
Institute for Strategic Research* (IRSEM, French Ministry of Defense). It
will be this *Friday March 2* at *3:00PM* in Claire-McNicoll *Z-345*.

ABSTRACT
Autonomous weapon systems – known as “killer robots” in popular culture –
are weapon systems that can select and attack targets without human
involvement. While they do not yet exist, they are already being discussed
before the UN, as some NGOs and states have begun demanding a preventive
ban against such weapons. This presentation will expose the difficulty of
defining them (the notion of autonomy, the typology of more or less
autonomous weapons, the notion of “meaningful human control”), the
diplomatic debate going on at the UN and the underlying moral debate
(responding to deontologist and consequentialist objections to autonomous
weapons). After such consideration, this presentation ultimately opposes a
preventive ban and proposes, instead, a code of conduct.

BIO
A Graduate of the Université de Montréal and McGill University, Dr
Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer is the director of the Institute for
Strategic Research (IRSEM, French Ministry of Defense). Previously a member
of the Policy Planning Staff (Ministry of Foreign Affairs), he was a member
of the French delegation at the UN Meeting of Experts on Lethal Autonomous
Weapons Systems in 2014, 2015 and 2016.

Last article on the topic: “Autonomous Weapon Diplomacy: The Geneva
Debates”, Ethics & International Affairs, Online Exclusive, 27 September
2016 (
https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/2016/autonomous-weapon-diplomacy-geneva-debates/
)
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