Statements from the 2017 CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapon systems
General exchange of views
Panels: Technology dimensions | Military effects dimensions | Legal/ethical dimensions | Crosscutting dimensions of emerging technologies in the area of LAWS
Interactive discussion on Chair's food-for-thought paper
The way ahead
Monday, 13 November
- Non-Aligned Movement, delivered by Venezuela (Mr.)
- European Union (Ms.)
- Sri Lanka (Mr.)
- Belgium (Mr.)
- Cuba (Mr.)
- Pakistan (Mr.)
- Costa Rica (Ms.)
- Switzerland (Ms.)
- India (Mr.)
- Holy See (Mr.)
- Spain (Mr.)
- New Zealand (Ms.)
- Bulgaria (Mr.)
- South Africa (Ms.)
- Panama (Ms.)
- Austria (Mr.)
- Morocco (Mr.)
- Japan (Mr.)
- Australia (Mr.)
- Cambodia (Mr.)
- Netherlands (Mr.)
- Republic of Korea (Mr.)
- Greece (Mr.)
- Kazakhstan (Mr.)
- Chile (Mr.)
- Brazil (Mr.)
- Germany (Mr.)
- Iraq (Mr.)
Wednesday, 15 November
- France (Ms.)
- Argentina (Mr.)
- China (Mr.)
- Russian Federation (Mr.)
- Egypt (Mr.)
- Canada (Ms.)
- Italy (Mr.)
- Mexico (Ms.)
- United States (Mr.)
- United Kingdom (Ms.)
- Sierra Leone (Ms.)
- Turkey (Mr.)
- Algeria (Mr.)
- Peru (Mr.)
- Croatia (Mr.)
- Sweden (Mr.)
- Finland (Ms.)
- Venezuela (Mr.)
- Israel (Mr.)
- Ireland (Mr.)
- Norway (Mr.)
- Nicaragua (Ms.)
- Zambia (Mr.)
- United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (Ms.)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (Ms.)
- Campaign to Stop Killer Robots (Ms.)
- Human Rights Watch (Mr.)
- International Committee for Robot Arms Control (Mr.)
- Mines Action Canada (Ms.)
- Nobel Women's Initiative (Ms.)
- PAX (Ms.)
- Center for a New American Security (Mr.)
Panel 1: Technology dimension
Monday, 13 November
- Professor Margaret Boden, University of Sussex
- Professor Gary Marcus, New York University
- Mr. Gautam Shroff, Tata Consultancy Services, India
- Mr. Harmony Mothibe, BotsZA, South Africa
- Professor Stuart Russell, University of California, Berkley
- Mr. Sean Legassick, Google DeepMind
Panel 2: Military effects dimension
Tuesday, 14 November
- Brigadier (Armament corps) Patrick Bezombes, France
- Professor Heigo Sato, Takushoku University, Tokyo
- Lieutenant Colonel Alan Brown, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Dr. David Shim, KAIST Institute for Robotics, Republic of Korea
- Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Korpela, Military Academy-West Point, United States of America
- Ms. Lydia Kostopoulos, National Defense University, Washington D.C.
Panel 3: Legal/ethical dimensions
Tuesday, 14 November
- Ms. Kathleen Lawand, International Committee of the Red Cross
- Ms. Marie-Helen Parizeau, World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology (COMEST), UNESCO
- Professor Xavier Oberson, University of Geneva
- Professor Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Diplomatic Academy, Russian Federation
- Mr. Lucas Bento, Attorney, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, and President of the Brazilian American Lawyers Association
- Professor Dominique Lambert, l'Université de Namur
Interactive discussion on the Chair's food-for-thought paper
Wednesday, 15 November
- Chair (Mr.)
- Chile (Mr.)
- Argentina (Mr.)
- Pakistan (Mr.)
- Germany (Mr.)
- France (Ms.)
- Panama (Ms.)
- Netherlands (Mr.)
- Japan (Mr.)
- China (Mr.)
- Cuba (Ms.)
- Brazil (Mr.)
- Egypt (Mr.)
- Switzerland (Mr.)
- Algeria (Mr.)
- United States
- Russian Federation (Mr.)
- China (Mr.)
The way ahead
Thursday, 16 November
- Non-Aligned Movement (Ms.)
- Netherlands (Mr.)
- Sierra Leone (Ms.)
- Poland (Mr.)
- Republic of Korea (Mr.)
- Argentina (Mr.)
- Belgium (Mr.)
- Italy (Mr.)
- Switzerland (Mr.)
- Panama (Ms.)
- Sri Lanka (Mr.)
- Japan (Mr.)
- Pakistan (Mr.)
- Russian Federation (Mr.)
- China (Mr.)
- Chile (Mr.)
- Palestine (Mr.)
- Latvia (Mr.)
- Cuba (Ms.)
- Estonia (Mr.)
- Brazil (Mr.)
- Spain (Mr.)
- Ireland (Mr.)
- United States (Mr.)
- Mexico (Ms.)
- Austria (Mr.)
- Costa Rica (Ms.)
- New Zealand (Ms.)
- United Kingdom (Ms.)
- Nicaragua (Ms.)
- Uganda (Mr.)
- Algeria (Mr.)
- Australia (Mr.)
- Canada (Ms.)
- International Committee of the Red Cross (Mr.)
- Peru (Mr.)
- Kazakhstan (Mr.)
Panel 4: Crosscutting discussion on various dimensions of emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems, in the context of the objectives and purposes of the Convention
Friday, 17 November
Friday, 17 November
- Dr. Ing. Konstantinos Karachalios, Managing Director, IEEE Standards Association
- Dr. Reinhard Scholl, International Telecommunications Union
- Mr. Neil Sahota, IBM Watson and University of California
- Ms. Kerstin Vignard, United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
- Dr. Vincent Boulanin, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
- Dr. Marcel Dickow, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik