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Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Contextual Nature of <em>Hors de Combat</em> Status

2021-03-22

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Autonomous weapons systems (AWS), sometimes referred to as “killer robots”, are receiving evermore attention, both in public discourse as well as by scholars and policymakers. Much of this interest is connected with emerging ethical and legal problems linked to increasing autonomy in weapons systems, but there is a general underappreciation for the ways in which existing law might impact on these new t...

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Literature Corpus work: da279699-0a1d-5106-8603-bce24deac7f3
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202103.0507.v1

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