Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Technological advances have led to a risk society, exacerbated by the development of artificial intelligence (AI). Currently, AI generates concern for its potential risk and malicious use, which is evident in the incorporation of AI in the military field, with the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS), which correspond to weapons that can operate and attack without human intervention, which leads to the problem of attribution of criminal liability for acts carried out by these autonomous weapons. With respect to this problem, different divergent positions have been identified. However, it is concluded that criminal law can and should address the problems of criminal liability of SAALs because it can be adapted to identify individuals with significant control over these technologies. This allows it to maintain justice and accountability without distorting its guiding principles, which focus on the human actions of those who design, manufacture, and operate these technologies. Moreover, criminal law can evolve to face new risks without losing its essence of protecting legal goods and human dignity in the modern conflicts of war.
Source: Revista de derecho (Coquimbo)
Author: Marcos Antonio Aravena-Flores
Institution: Universidad Autónoma de Chile
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403538132