Countering the “Humans vs. AWS” Narrative and the Inevitable Accountability Gaps for Mistakes in Targeting: A Reply to Kevin Jon Heller
*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. Dr. Marta Bo[**] [This essay is available in PDF at this link] I. Introduction In this reply, I challenge the “Humans vs. AWS” narrative, which claims that AWS will achieve unprecedented targeting accuracy compared to humans. By highlighting the flaws in this comparison, I also dispute the idea that there will always be gaps in accountability for […]
