April 17, 2015

Presentation on Public Opinion and Security Issues of Autonomous Weapon Systems

By JaRel Clay

In April, Dr. Michael Horowitz, adjunct senior fellow at CNAS, presented to the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) the public opinion and security issues associated with autonomous weapon systems.

Download the slides from his presentation.

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