{"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>
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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, […]<\/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,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-1458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_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}]}}