Abstract

A key focus area for discussions on responsible use of military AI concerns accountability. While there is consensus in international law that individual criminal responsibility applies only to humans and not machines, the crucial question of how it should be attributed remains relatively under-discussed. This webinar will address the challenges related to assigning individual criminal responsibility when it comes to intentional use of AI systems in committing war crimes and the efficacy of current solutions.

This event is part of a series organised by the Military Transformations Programme on emerging issues in military AI.

Speaker

Anna Rosalie Greipl is a Researcher at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva Academy), where she works for the Digitalization of Armed Conflict projects. She is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the military use of artificial intelligence and its impact on international humanitarian law.

Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, she was a Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has also worked as a Thematic Legal Advisor on Urban Warfare with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2018 until 2019. Her previous positions include those of legal associate in the legal division of the ICRC (2017-2018) and intern with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Cameroon (2016-2017).

Anna holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy (2018) and an LLM in Law and Politics of International Security from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2016). She has been awarded the 2018 Henry Dunant Research Prize for her LLM Thesis on ‘International State Responsibility: The Role of Italy in Outsourcing Migration Management to Libya’.