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The CCW
Debate
and Its
Implications
for VSD

Meaningful
Human Control
of Lethal
Autonomous
Weapon
Systems
Thea Riebe, Stefka Schmid, and Christian Reuter
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0278-0097/20©2020IEEE

T

he debate on the development and deployment of
lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) as an
emerging technology is of
increasing importance,
with discussions stalling
and technological development progressing.
Monitoring the progress of increasingly autonomous weapons systems in civilian and military use [1] as well as regulating possible autonomous systems early on is demanded by
civil society actors, like the Campaign to Stop
Killer Robots and the International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC), while nation states
follow a variety of interests and strategies,
showing little room for consensus on central
terms and questions [2], [3]. This article therefore sheds light on the work of the Group of
Governmental Experts (GGE) of the UN Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons
(CCW). The CCW, offering an arena for international cooperation, has dedicated itself to the
purpose of finding common ground with respect to an understanding of LAWS, as well as
to the necessary degree of human control.
From an ethical perspective, the concept of
Meaningful Human Control (MHC) supports a
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