Bellum Ex Machina: Paradoxes of Asymmetry and Culpability in Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems

• In Event: Political Theory and the Global

Brief Overview

Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems present paradoxes for collectivists and reductivists: LAWS create an absolute asymmetry in casualties, and allow for “war crimes without criminals” creates moral vacuums wherein culpability cannot be assigned.

Author

• Anthony Hobert, University of South Carolina