UK defence ministers are re-examining one of the central ethical constraints of modern warfare — that lethal weapons systems should always require humans to choose the targets.
Current UK military policy, published in 2022, said there would be “context-appropriate human involvement” in the selection and engagement of targets. Following rapid advances in drone warfare, some officials are pushing for human involvement to be optional.
Al Carns, the armed forces minister, indicated that there might be exceptional circumstances in which machines made targeting decisions for themselves.
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