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MiddleGround Issue 1 2022
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Exploring 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 fishermen in Palau such as Kalei Luii from the Division of Oceanic Fisheries...
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 affect the Pacific Island nations. The history of nuclear weapon testing and the...
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 New Zealand Permanent Mission in Geneva in September 2021....
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 Review Conference, the specialised diplomatic talks relating to the issue of...
Issue 2 June 2021
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Australia drags its feet on autonomous weapons regulation
Fully autonomous weapons, those which select and engage targets in absence of human control, give rise to moral, ethical, legal and security threats. The efforts to introduce a ban on these ‘killer robots,’ also referred to as ‘lethal autonomous weapons systems’ (LAWS) continue to grow globally. World governments, civil society groups and the...
From The Editor
While scrolling one of my multiple news feeds, often time in bed escaping the morning, I find myself reading about stories all over the world: in Sheik Jarrah, the fight against COVID, Myanmar, or the US. I then often find myself lamenting the three month period we have between issues of MiddleGround. In that time the world seems to shake and...