CUA Law professor Antonio Perez wrote a book review entitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bots, and How I Learned to Start Worrying About Democracy" for the 27 Cath. U. J. L. & Tech 129 (2019).

 

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bots, and How I Learned to Start Worrying About Democracy Instead

27 Cath. U. J. L. & Tech 129 (2019)
By: Antonio Perez

Abstract

This essay reviewing Striking Power, John Yoo and Jeremy Rabkin's new book on the legal and policy implications of autonomous weapons, takes issue with the book's assumptions and; therefore its conclusions. The essay argues that, because of technological and ethical limitations, discriminate and effective use of autonomous weapons may not serve as an adequate substitute for traditional manpower-based military forces. It further argues that traditional conceptions of international law could prove more durable than Yoo and Rabkin suggest, and finally it concludes by suggesting that a grand strategy relying primarily on technological elites managing autonomous weapons actually threatens to undermine our common democracy and its reliance on mass citizen mobilization.

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