Abstract
ABSTRACT This article develops a critique of the politics of algorithmic war and autonomous weapons systems. While much of the existing debate is focused on whether algorithmic weapons technologies can satisfy the ethics and laws of war, we argue that more focus should instead be placed on the politics within and around these systems. The theoretical contributions of Elke Schwarz, Louise Amoore, and Carl Schmitt are employed to critique the implied neutrality of ethical war algorithms and excavate the place of the friend/enemy distinction within them. Ronald Arkin's influential work on Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots (2009) and the more recent DARPA-funded work of the Allen Institute for AI, which has led to the release of Ask Delphi, are discussed as examples of these issues. We conclude by calling for a radicalisation of the existing debate over algorithmic war and AWS in order to create space for anti-militarist and pacifist voices and to avoid reification of the ethical war discourse.
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