The Pros And Cons Of Regulation Of Autonomous Weapons

Autonomous weapons can be defined as “a weapon system that, once activated, can select and engage targets without further intervention by a human operator. This includes human-supervised autonomous weapon systems that are designed to allow human operators to override operation of the weapon system, but can select and engage targets without further human input after activation.” These weapons can be used in domains such as land, air, water, space and even cyber. The introduction of such weapons has triggered new trials in international codes of law, ethics, and human rights. The hazardous risk posed by fully autonomous weapons is that, it doesn’t need any human control to obliterate its threats and because of this, a high percentage of the international community perceives it as immoral and unethical. Our nation’s understanding is that human judgment and clemency can’t ever be replaced with artificial intelligence. The Democratic Republic of Congo does not possess such like weapons and assuredly won’t develop fully autonomous weapons in the future. The nation of DRC agrees with the notion of using feasible and measured set of guidelines to

We believe that testing and certification of autonomous weapons should be handled in a way that will create enough transparency, and some level of confidence, to reach international agreements and to avoid scenarios of mutual destruction. We are proud to state that a Congolese scientist is working with the International Panel on the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (iPRAW) which is an independent group of specialists who work under the guidance of The United Nations Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) to provide an unbiased source of information and to the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) within the charter of the United Nations Convention of Certain Conventional