Heller Symposium

* This article is the last in a symposium on Kevin Jon Heller’s “The Concept of “the Human” in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons,” published in this journal in 2023. It responds to prior articles in the symposium which can be found in the Harvard National Security Journal Online at https://harvardnsj.org/onlineedition.  Kevin Jon Heller [**] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] INTRODUCTION At the beginning of their response to my article, Elke Schwarz and Neil Renic say that “[w]e know and like Kevin.”[1] Bo does not say that she likes me in her response, but I’m confident that […]

* This article is part of a symposium on Kevin Jon Heller’s “The Concept of “the Human” in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons,” published in this journal in 2023. All articles in the symposium can be found in the Harvard National Security Journal Online at https://harvardnsj.org/onlineedition.   Elke Schwarz[**] Neil Renic[***] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] I. Introduction Critiquing a critique is a delicate matter. One risk is that the intention of the critique (either one) is distorted or misconstrued. The motivations of the respective authors can be difficult to grasp with precision, and we all read texts