Artificial Intelligence on the Battlefield and Criminal Responsibility

Guest lecture with Dr. Marta Bo (Amsterdam-Asser Institute)

This lecture delves into the challenges to the attribution of criminal responsibility arising from the use of AI in the military domain.

Dr. Marta Bo is a senior researcher at the University of Amsterdam-Asser Institute in The Hague and is Associate Senior Researcher at SIPRI’s Armament and Disarmament programme. Her research focuses on state responsibility and individual criminal responsibility for unlawful conducts in the use and development of military AI; AI and criminal responsibility; automation biases and mens rea; disarmament and criminalisation. Marta leads, designs and implements capacity-building training projects for judiciaries in international and transnational criminal law, international humanitarian law, and human rights law. She has published on international and transnational criminal law (especially, piracy and migrant smuggling), the International Criminal Court, complementarity, law of the sea and human rights, artificial intelligence and criminal responsibility, autonomous weapons, self-driving cars, state responsibility. Marta is member of the Steering Committee of the Antonio Cassese Initiative for Justice, Peace and Humanity and editor of the international criminal law section of the Leiden Journal of International Law.