Group of governmental experts on autonomous weapons to continue work in 2023

Group of governmental experts on autonomous weapons to continue work in 2023 following decisions made at the 2022 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Work will intensify, aiming to propose measures and enhance the normative and operational framework on lethal autonomous weapon systems.

The 2022 Meeting of the High Contracting Parties to the Convention on prohibitions or restrictions on the use of certain conventional weapons which may be deemed to be excessively injurious or have indiscriminate effects (Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons – CCW) decided that the work of the Group of Governmental Experts related to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapons system (GGE on LAWS) is to continue in 2023. The Meeting further decided that the Group ‘is to intensify the consideration of proposals and elaborate, by consensus, possible measures, including taking into account the example of existing protocols within the Convention, and other options related to the normative and operational framework on emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems, building upon the recommendations and conclusions of the Group of Governmental Experts related to emerging technologies in the area of lethal autonomous weapon systems, and bringing in expertise on legal, military, and technological aspects’.