Argentina

Argentina has participated in all Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meetings on the issue of autonomous weapons systems^[1]Human Rights Watch, Stopping Killer Robots: Country Positions on Banning Fully Autonomous Weapons and Retaining Human Control, … Continue reading. Argentina supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons. At the 77th UN General Assembly First Committee meeting, Argentina reaffirmed its ‘commitment to disarmament and conventional weapons regulation agreements, especially technology for autonomous weapons.'^[2]Statement by Argentina, 77th UN General Assembly First Committee, 06 October 2022, https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1b/k1bl8m8o2l; please note that this link leads to the full recording & … Continue reading

In the second session of the 2021 Group of Governmental Experts meeting on lethal autonomous weapons systems (GGE on LAWS), Argentina stated on behalf of a group of ten states that ‘the potential military applications of autonomous weapons systems and related technologies will make war more inhumane than it already is.’^[3]Statement by Argentina, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 27 September 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS-27-09-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to the full … Continue reading Adding to these concerns on the military use of autonomous technologies, it said ‘artificial intelligence has the capacity to fundamentally alter the nature of warfare and thus raises ethical, technical, moral, legal concerns, especially with regards to the full compliance with the norms and principles of international law.’ ^[4]Statement by Argentina, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 27 September 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS-27-09-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to the full … Continue reading

Argentina supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. At the second session of the 2021 meeting of the CCW Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons, Argentina stated that the GGE on LAWS ‘needs a mandate to negotiate a legally binding instrument to address humanitarian, legal, ethical, moral, human security and other concerns over the implication of developments’ in the area of autonomous weapons systems.^[5]Statement by Argentina, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 27 September 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS-27-09-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to the full … Continue reading At the Sixth Review conference of the CCW in December 2021, Argentina said that steps should be taken towards ‘regulating and banning the development, acquisition and use of autonomous weapons; and further it should be established that they have to always have meaningful human control’. ^[6]Statement by Argentina, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 14 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/RCHCP6-14-12-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note … Continue reading

Argentina has further stated that ‘autonomous weapons systems of configurations that target, engage and apply force, inter alia, in deciding on the life of human beings without meaningful human control are unacceptable and must be prohibited under international law.’ ^[7]Statement by Argentina, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 27 September 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/LAWS-27-09-2021-AM_mp3_en.html; please note that this link leads to the full … Continue reading