{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fbef2f5b5-1c70-4e2b-9f39-9d33fd46f246","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"'International Humanitarian Law and the Changing Technology of War, Part I: Challenges for the Next Generation': Professor Dan Saxon\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/bef2f5b5-1c70-4e2b-9f39-9d33fd46f246\"></iframe>","title":"'International Humanitarian Law and the Changing Technology of War, Part I: Challenges for the Next Generation': Professor Dan Saxon","description":"On Wednesday 17th October 2012 Professor Dan Saxon, Visiting Professor, University of Utrecht spoke at an event held by the Hughes Hall Hat Club. \r\n\r\nThis talk was the first of a three-part series, exploring the legal challenges for armed forces resulting from the development and use of new military technologies for the conduct of warfare. \r\n\r\nThis talk explores the legal challenges for armed forces resulting from the development and use of new military technologies for the conduct of warfare. The application of International Humanitarian Law (\"IHL\") is an attempt to achieve an equitable balance between humanitarian requirements and the necessities of war. Thus, the obligations of IHL are intended to reduce the suffering caused by war, in particular the pain inflicted on civilians and persons hors de combat. The efforts of IHL to promote the 'humanization of war' presuppose that war\u2019s protagonists \u2013 soldiers, military officers, civilian superiors and insurgents \u2013 are human. Increasingly, however, war is and will be fought by machines \u2013 and virtual networks linking machines \u2013 which, to varying degrees, are controlled by humans. With advances in artificial intelligence, machines will be less dependent on human control and humans will become dependent on machines to 'make decisions' and take action for them. The automation of killing is perhaps the largest legal and moral hurdle facing unmanned combat systems. Professor Saxon discusses whether IHL \u2013 in its current form \u2013 is sufficient to control the development and operation of these technologies.","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4c5cf328-556d-4231-806a-0fab4e70311d/1331658.jpg"}