Defining the Technical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems to Address Ethical and Policy Challenges | LAWS Workshop @ ICRA 2022

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A lot of work has been done to identify and clarify ethical and legal concerns regarding autonomous weapons systems (AWS), and many ethical principles have been broadly agreed upon. However, these principles are not easily translated into programmable code, and much of the terminology in the principles can be vague or inconsistently defined among disparate groups. The IEEE-SA convened a small group of experts to look at various sets of principles from a more technical, pragmatic perspective. The group identified 10 categories of challenges that need to be addressed in order to transform high-level ethical principles associated with AWS into practice. This talk reviews the work of the IEEE-SA report, with a special focus on the challenges that get to some of the most fundamental ethical and technical questions in the AWS debates: How realistic is it to expect a human to “control” an AWS, and if direct control of the system isn’t possible, how well can the outcome of using the system be predicted and/or controlled?

About the Speaker:
Ariel Conn heads the IEEE-SA Research Group on Issues of Autonomy and AI for Defense Systems, and is the founder of the nonprofit consultancy, Mag10 Consulting. Her work covers a range of issues, including autonomous weapons systems, AI safety, AI policy, nuclear weapons, climate change, and other global catastrophic risks. She also looks at how increasing diverse representation can improve how we address these issues. Conn has given public statements on lethal autonomous weapons at the United Nations, and has been an invited speaker to events around the world to discuss AI, autonomous weapons, climate change, and risks associated with technology. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, The Huffington Post, Metro UK, and more. Some of the groups she has worked with previously include the Future of Life Institute (FLI), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Virginia Tech, the Idaho National Lab, the National Energy Technology Lab, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, astrology.com, and NASA.

Recorded at the Workshop on Addressing Ethical and Technical Challenges in the Development, Use and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems during the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Produced in partnership with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (https://www.ieee-ras.org/).
Recording funded in part by a grant from the United Engineering Foundation (https://www.uefoundation.org/).

About the Video: A lot of work has been done to identify and clarify ethical and legal concerns regarding autonomous weapons systems (AWS), and many ethical principles have been broadly agreed upon. However, these principles are not easily translated into programmable code, and much of the terminology in the principles can be vague or inconsistently defined among disparate groups. The IEEE-SA convened a small group of experts to...

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