What Happens When Weapons go to War?
Lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) are weapons that need little, if any, human interaction in order to select and engage their targets. While technology to improve weapons systems is advancing, experts both in and outside the U.S. military are considering whether fully autonomous weapons are moral and whether they fully justify the benefits that can include incredible speed and accuracy in war, or whether fully automated systems are more at risk of disaster because of their lack of ability to fully understand the consequences of their decisions.
The Cipher Brief spoke with Paul Scharre, a former U.S. Army Ranger who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scharre also worked to help establish policies on unmanned systems when he worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (2008-2013). He was recently awarded the 2019 William E. Colby Award for his book, Army of None: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War.
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Saxby Chambliss
Saxby Chambliss is a partner at DLA Piper in Atlanta. He served as a member of the U.S. Senate for two terms, and was the Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. He also served on the Senate Armed Services Committee and the Senate Rules Committee. Chambliss was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for four terms ...
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