The dazzling advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics techniques, and their application to the defence sector, are increasingly leading to the emergence of new types of military robots capable of using force of their own accord. These so-called "killer robots" do, however, raise a number of questions: can these weapons, which do not expose soldiers, really be fully controlled? What effects do these technologies have on those who use them, on the adversaries who face them, and on the very nature of the relationship between aggressor and aggressed? Are these systems changing relations between states, and also the relationship between the state and its citizens? Are they compatible with the laws of war? These are the questions that Laure de Roucy-Rochegonde seeks to answer in her book "La guerre à l'ère de l'intelligence artificielle: Quand les machines prennent les armes".
Laure de Roucy-Rochegonde holds a doctorate in political science and is currently Director of the Centre for the Geopolitics of Technology at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI). Her work there focuses on the military applications of artificial intelligence, normative conflict and arms control. She is also an associate researcher at the Centre de recherches internationales (CERI, Sciences Po/CNRS) and teaches the ethics of war and arms control at Sciences Po Paris and the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas.
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