Roser Martínez warns of the risks of delegating lethal decisions to artificial intelligence.

The director of the Manuel Ballbé Chair of Human Security and Global Law at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Roser Martínez Quirante, participated in the program El Vespre on RTVE Catalunya, where she reflected on the risks posed by the use of artificial intelligence in the military field and in armed conflicts.

During the interview, Martínez warned that artificial intelligence systems are already being used in war contexts without clear international regulation, which could have serious ethical, legal, and humanitarian consequences. In this regard, she stated that “we are delegating life-or-death decisions to machines that have no ethics.”

The chair director also emphasized that these systems can make lethal decisions without direct human supervision and that they often reproduce the biases of their programmers or the data on which they have been trained. This raises important questions about who should be held responsible in the event of mistakes or potential violations of international humanitarian law.

In this context, Martínez advocates for the need to move toward international regulation that limits or prohibits autonomous weapons and always ensures human control over decisions affecting people’s lives.

Her intervention highlights the new challenges posed by the intersection of technology, security, and human rights, and the importance of addressing them from a legal and ethical perspective.

🔗 You can watch the full interview here:https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/el-vespre/roser-martinez-quirante-deleguem-decisions-vida-mort-maquines-no-tenen-etica/16978237/