Unpacking the Accountability Dilemma: Individual Criminality for Autonomous Weapon Systems
摘要
This chapter looks into the canonical problems connected to attributing individual criminal responsibility for international law violations committed through the employment of autonomous weapons systems. It focuses on carefully investigating how individuals could be held responsible under the Rome Statute, including through direct participation, co-perpetration, indirect commission, and supporting roles such as aiding and abetting. It closely analyses challenges such as mens rea for actions that were carried out by autonomous weapons systems as well as establishing a causal link between individual behaviour and armed conflict. The study suggests that because of these problems, it is important to maintain human oversight over the targeting and finding on configuring such systems. Finally, it adds that autonomous capabilities do not free an individual of responsibility, but may make some changes to international law while again emphasising the importance of humanitarian law in the course of ongoing advancement of autonomous technologies in war.