Description
The dichotomy between conflict decision-making and emotion is often used to justify the outsourcing of human decisions and actions to AI as a more ethical and superior way of conducting war. Yet, this remains a largely unexplored area in contemporary research and literature. This paper will reflect on various disciplines including bio-psychosocial and systemic approaches to better understand and highlight the importance of human qualities such as emotion, reason, judgement, empathy, and caution in conflict decision-making.
It will then outline the importance of human emotions in framing the relationship between AI and humanity, particularly when it comes to lethal targeting and conflict decision-making. It will also set out a framework that allows us to evaluate the use of AI on the battlefield in a meaningful way in order to assess its compliance with International Humanitarian Law.
