Anne-Sophie Oppor

  Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences | Bachelor Digital Society

"“Meaningful” Human Control in Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems Ethical Challenges for International Humanitarian Law"

Anne-Sophie's elevator pitch
Intersecting legal and ethical studies, my thesis draws on the concepts of meaningful human control and autonomy. The central question of investigation aims at exploring to what extent International Humanitarian Law can and should ensure meaningful human control in the use of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. I conducted an extensive, integrative literature review comparing how legal and ethical perspectives define aspects of autonomy and human control, and how they place them in the use of autonomous weapons systems. My findings suggest that either terms have not been sufficiently defined or agreed upon to include all stakeholders’ views and, therefore, lack relevance to both hard law and soft law.