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DRONE OPERATORS – LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY
DRONE OPERATORS – LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY

Author(s): Andrei-Alexandru Stoica
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: Universitatea Nicolae Titulescu
Keywords: drones; operators; International Criminal Court; strike; man-in-the-loop.

Summary/Abstract: Drones or unmanned or remote vehicles represent a new generation of devices that were designed to help mankind achieve better results in areas that were proven to hazardous. By developing drones, new areas of economic activities have been unlocked for better exploitation, but at the same time, the lack of a proper legal system to back-up the new technology allowed a new wave of gray-lined uses of drones that must be tackled. As the Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institute1 explains in an interview in 2012 that “a revolutionary technology is a game-changing technology on a historic level. It is technology like gunpowder, or the steam engine, or the atomic bomb”. With this in mind, drones mark the revolution to carry out strikes from thousands of kilometers away, while also ensuring a permanent eye in the sky for both military and also law enforcement operations. The aforementioned facts are just small percentages of what a drone is truly capable of and its full potential will only be unlocked once artificial intelligence will become an integral part of robotics.

  • Issue Year: XXIII/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 111-127
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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