Why no consensus on Autonomous Weapons --- Well, Bennette, at first when one thinks about these weapons, this might seem like a natural conclusion. And, indeed, this is what we are doing. The Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) , which I chaired in 2019 and 2020, in a very short period of time for multilateral diplomacy, adopted "Guiding Principles." The Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, under whose authority the GGE is formed, is planned for mid-December. We will see what will come out of it: how the Guiding Principles will be used and how the mandate will continue for the next five years, if at all. We should not forget how new this topic is. It was first raised in 2014 and a Meeting of Experts organised in a UN context the following year. The First GGE was created in 2018 and by 2019, when I chaired, we already adopted Guiding Principles. This is the most advanced normative deliberation on anything involving Machine Learning in any other context! So, reason to be somewhat optimistic, as much as this issue does and should concern us.

Source author: Ljupčo Gjorgjinski LjupcoG@diplomacy.edu