Chile

Chile has participated in most Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons meetings on autonomous weapons systems. Chile has expressed its concern that autonomous weapon systems  pose ‘particular challenges to the human elements, in particular in terms of human control concerning the use of lethal force.’^[1]Statement by Chile, CCW Group of Governmental Experts on LAWS, 22 September 2020, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/CCW-GGE-20200922-AM_mp3.html; please note that this link leads to the full … Continue reading

Chile supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems. Chile has stressed that the moral, legal, and ethical implications of ‘dehumanised war at the loss of significant human control’ necessitates a ‘legally binding instrument with prohibitions and restrictions agreed internationally.’^[2]Statement by Chile, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/RCHCP6-13-12-2021-PM_mp3_en.html; please note … Continue reading At the Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons in December 2021, Chile referred to the ‘need for regulation in order to control these technologies, rather than have them control us.’^[3]Statement by Chile, Sixth Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, http://149.202.215.129:8080/s2t/UNOG/RCHCP6-13-12-2021-PM_mp3_en.html; please note … Continue reading

Chile is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) which also supports the negotiation of a legally binding instrument. NAM, in its statement at the Sixth Review Conference of the CCW in December 2021, stated that there is an ‘urgent need to pursue a legally binding instrument under the Convention that will contain prohibitions and regulations for addressing the humanitarian and international security challenges posed by emerging technologies in the area of LAWS.’^[4]Statement by the Non-Aligned Movement, Sixth review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, 13 December 2021, … Continue reading