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Commentary and updates from the SafeGround teamExploring AI for good in Pacific
SafeGround’s Pacific team have been exploring instances of artificial intelligence (AI) used for good across Pacific Island nations and found some interesting and downright amazing stuff! FishFace - Facial Recognition In 2016-17 the Nature Conservancy, along with...
How will killer robots affect the Pacific Islands?
An arms race with lethal autonomous weapons is on. Lethal autonomous weapons, also known as Killer Robots, are a threat that the international community must address now. SafeGround is looking at how these emerging weapons may...
Barriers to joining the Convention on Cluster Munitions in the Pacific?
SafeGround is exploring the barriers, challenges and incentives to Pacific nations joining the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Conventions and considerations for the Pacific
SafeGround has been exploring the barriers, challenges and incentives to Pacific nations joining the Mine Ban Treaty and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. AS part of this effort we co-hosted a side event at the 2RC of the Convention on Cluster Munitions with the...
Australia’s position on autonomous weapons inadequate; time for clearer policy
Australia’s lacking and concerning position on autonomous weapons needs to be urgently reviewed ahead of the Sixth Review Conference of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW), scheduled from 13-17 December in Geneva. Ahead of this critical...
SafeGround Calls for Red Lines*: 2020 Australian Autonomous Weapons Landscape Recap
In 2021, we need urgent action to ensure meaningful human control over the deployment of lethal force, specifically in the selecting of targets (humans) and decision as to whether or not to attack. A clear, legal standard is needed which will prohibit the use of...
Statement on Australian 2020 Defence Strategic Update
On 1 July Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced Australia’s 2020 Defence Strategic Update which he described as a response to a “poorer, more dangerous world”. The Defence Strategic Update outlined expenditure for increased defence capabilities totalling $270...
The Pacific WW2 Explosive Legacy
Book cover of SafeGround's "In Search of Safe Ground - ERW in the Pacific". In 2014 SafeGround started researching the Pacific WW2 Explosive Legacy. Since then team members have done extensive desk and field research. Please see...
Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
While the idea of ‘killer robots’ or lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) that may select and engage targets without meaningful human control may sound like science-fiction, the development of these LAWS are actually closer to reality than we may believe. Just last...
Safe Ground’s Continued Pacific Research
Although World War 2 ended over 70 years ago, many communities in what was the Pacific area of operations are still living with dangerous legacies of left over bombs and explosives. Safe Ground researchers have already contributed a considerable amount of research and...
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