The Geneva Convention and disruptive technologies: Impacts and possible solutions.

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13939740

Abstract

This article non-exhaustively examines the challenges that disruptive technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), decision algorithms and cyber warfare, bring to the application of the Geneva Convention in the context of modern armed conflicts. The Convention, which establishes standards to protect civilians and combatants, was created before the digital era and now faces difficulties adapting to an increasingly automated and digitalized battlefield. Technologies such as lethal autonomous weapons (LAWS), AI systems, and cyberattacks raise questions about liability, the distinction between combatants and civilians, and the proportionality of attacks. From the prospection of information in books and articles by experts in this field of knowledge, solutions are proposed, including the eventual creation of specific regulations for AI and autonomous weapons, with greater transparency in decisions based on algorithms and the development of international standards for the cyber warfare, so that the principles of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) can be respected with a greater degree of probability by belligerent entities.