{"id":1458,"date":"2023-02-13T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T15:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/?page_id=1458"},"modified":"2025-12-19T13:13:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:13:41","slug":"embodied-artificial-intelligence-and-jus-ad-bellum-necessity-influence-and-imminence-in-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/in-print\/volume-53\/volume-53-number-2-winter-2022\/embodied-artificial-intelligence-and-jus-ad-bellum-necessity-influence-and-imminence-in-the-digital-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Embodied Artificial Intelligence and\u00a0Jus ad Bellum\u00a0Necessity: Influence and Imminence in the Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c<\/span>Prevention is better than the cure<\/span><\/span>. . .<\/span><\/span>\u201d \u2014<\/span> Erasmus, 16th Century<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/p>\n

In<\/span> \u201c<\/span>re-opening<\/span>\u201d<\/span> the classic debate surrounding a state\u2019s wider right of self- <\/span>defense (in light of emerging technologies, and via the<\/span> \u201c<\/span>lens<\/span>\u201d<\/span> of influence<\/span><\/span> com<\/span>munications),<\/span><\/span> the authors controversially<\/span> \u201c<\/span>close<\/span>\u201d<\/span> the following discussion in <\/span>favor of allowing Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) to lawfully authorize <\/span>pre-emptive acts of self-defense in response to non-imminent threats of a grave<\/span>
\u00a0se of force. The authors provide a twofold justification for adopting this highly <\/span>provocative stance.<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/p>\n

First, they argue that the introduction of EAIs will facilitate a unique<\/span><\/span> recali<\/span>bration<\/span><\/span> of the necessity and last resort requirements of self-defense which would <\/span>\u201c<\/span>enable<\/span>\u201d<\/span> certain pre-emptive actions to be re-categorized as<\/span> \u201c<\/span>anticipatory.<\/span>\u201d <\/span>Secondly, the authors contend that because EAIs will be able to<\/span> \u201c<\/span>compute<\/span>\u201d<\/span> post-<\/span>bellum considerations as part of their preparatory calculations, the potential <\/span>unlawfulness of pre-emptive actions are further mitigated. In short, the<\/span><\/span> utiliza<\/span>tion<\/span><\/span> of EAI\u2019s will ensure that a greater range of humanitarian protections can be provided to the civilian population when future acts of self-defense are deemed necessary.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cPrevention is better than the cure. . .\u201d \u2014 Erasmus, 16th Century In \u201cre-opening\u201d the classic debate surrounding a state\u2019s wider right of self- defense (in light of emerging technologies, and via the \u201clens\u201d of influence communications), the authors controversially \u201cclose\u201d the following discussion in favor of allowing Embodied Artificial Intelligence (EAI) to lawfully authorize […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9018,"featured_media":0,"parent":1412,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1458\/revisions\/3279"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/international-law-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}