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Pakistan’s Functional Approach to Regulating LAWS

Archive, Arms Control & Nonproliferation, Defense & Security, Government & PoliticsArms Control, Article 36 reviews, autonomous target selection, Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), design-centric prohibitions, disarmament, dual-use technology, effect-based regulation, effective human control, explainability, functional approach, Group of Governmental Experts (GGE), human-in-the-loop, international humanitarian law, legally binding instrument, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS), Pakistan, predictability, preemptive regulation, state responsibility

Pakistan’s Functional Approach to Regulating LAWS

Atta Ullah0 Comments

Published: October 26, 2026 International humanitarian law (IHL) takes an “effect-based” approach to regulating/banning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). This “outcome-driven,” or result-oriented, approach is based on real-world results of…

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Explainability, Not Speed, Will Define the Next Military AI Race

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Strategic Adversariesaccountability, autonomous weapons, black box, certification, classical AI, courtroom, decision recovery, decision-making, defense studies, emerging technologies, entanglement, ethical defense, explainability, gate-based models, Human Rights, interference, international bodies., international humanitarian law, legal exposure, legal justification, LIME, logistics planning, military AI, neural networks, operational risk, optimization, pattern recognition, prediction, proportionality, public trust, quantum AI, quantum computing, research, rules of engagement, satellite imagery, scrutiny, SHAP, speed, superposition, target prioritization, threat classification, transparency, tribunal

Explainability, Not Speed, Will Define the Next Military AI Race

Maheen Butt1 Comment

Published: September 21, 2026 A soldier who fires on a target must be able to reason “why” afterward. Similarly, a commander who authorizes a strike must be able to justify…

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Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: A New Battlefield Reality

AI & Deterrence, Archive, Emerging Threats, Strategic AdversariesAI, algorithmic bias, artificial intelligence, autonomous weapons, civilian casualties, confidence-building measures, emerging military technologies, false nuclear alarms, full autonomy, Gaza conflict, global peace and security, human out of the loop, IHL, international humanitarian law, international verification mechanisms, LAWS, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, Meaningful Human Control, MHC, Military Technology, moratorium, Nuclear Deterrence, Resolution A/RES/79/62, South Asian nuclear deterrence, strategic stability, strategic stability dynamics, Ukraine conflict, UN CCW, UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, UN General Assembly

Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems: A New Battlefield Reality

Jawad Ali Shah2 Comments

Published: March 31, 2026 Technological advances and rising military expenditures in recent years have accelerated the development of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS). Though this technology is still in its…

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