Isodarco 2017: ADVANCED AND CYBER WEAPONS SYSTEMS: TECHNOLOGY AND ARMS CONTROL

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 10:37:31 +0200
From: isodarco
Subject: Isodarco 2017: ADVANCED AND CYBER WEAPONS SYSTEMS:
TECHNOLOGY AND ARMS CONTROL

Enclosed and attached is the information relative to the 30th Isodarco
Winter Course (www.isodarco.it). We hope that you will find this information
of interest and you will join us in this intellectually challenging
experience. We also hope that you will pass this information to your friends
and colleagues and forward it to your mailing list. Attached is a pdf poster
that you can print on European or American standard paper sizes, we hope
that you will kindly post it on your bulletin board.

Thank you for your collaboration and best personal regards.

Carlo Schaerf

*ISODARCO*
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS
/since 1966-Italian Pugwash Group/

30th Winter Course

*ADVANCED AND CYBER WEAPONS SYSTEMS:*
*TECHNOLOGY AND ARMS CONTROL*
*ANDALO (TRENTO) – ITALY,8-15 JANUARY 2017*

***Director of the School:Carlo Schaerf*(ISODARCO, Rome, Italy).

*Directors of the Course:**Giampiero Giacomello*(Department of Political
Sciences SPS, University of Bologna, Italy); *Riccardo Antonini*(Technical
Scientific Expert, Presidency of the Italian Council of Ministers, Rome,
Italy).

The search for the ultimate weapon has always motivated military planners
and engineers to exploit for military purposes new scientific discoveries
and technological advances, thereby causing qualitative arms races. The
breadth and pace of development in computers, networks, robotics and
artificial intelligence suggests the emergence of new generations of
weapons, in cyberspace and in the physical world, that will be compact,
unmanned and, perhaps, with independent decision-making capability. Could
the speed of action-reaction in future conflicts require to put humans
"out-of-the-loop". This conclusion would be quite dangerous, because
autonomous weapon systems, in cyber and real space, will inevitably be prone
to serious hardware limitations and unreliability, design and programming
errors, deception, tampering or, simply, hacking. This ISODARCO Course aims
at understanding modern autonomous weapons technology as well as the
possibilities and prospects of related arms control limitations.

Long list of Principal Lecturers, more info, and online application
available at www.isodarco.it….

ISODARCO READING MATERIAL

Guidelines for a National Cyber Strategy
Gabi Siboni , Ofer Assaf
Memorandum No. 153, Tel Aviv: Institute for National Security Studies, March 2016

UNOG - Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems

"Trident is old technology": the brave new world of cyber warfare
Julian Borger
The Guardian - June 16, 2016

Lethal Autonomous Systems and the Future of Warfare
Daniel Sukman
This article was originally published in the Canadian Military Journal (CMJ), Vol 16, No 1 (Winter 2015).

UNIDIR Cyber Stability Seminar 2015: Regime Coherence
Seminar Report 9 July 2015, Geneva, Switzerland

Cyber Security at Civil NuclearFacilities: Understanding the Risks
UNIDIR - October 2015

The DOD Cyber Strategy
DOD - April 2015

The Ethics of Autonomous Weapons Systems

CYBERSECURITY AND CYBERWAR. What everyone needs to know
P.W. Singer - A. Friedman. Oxford University Press, 2014

Framing Discussions on the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies
UNIDIR 2014

The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies: Considering how Meaningful Human Control might move the discussion forward
UNIDIR 2014

The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies: Considering Ethics and Social Values
UNIDIR 2014

Security in Cyberspace - Targeting Nations, Infrastructures, Individuals
G. Giacomello. Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

New cyber doctrine shows more offense, transparency
Sean Lyngaas
FCW - Oct. 24, 2014

Remarks by the President on Review of Signals Intelligence
January 17, 2014

THE NATIONAL PLAN FOR CYBERSPACE PROTECTION AND ICT SECURITY
Presidency of the Council of Ministers
December 2013

NATIONAL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR CYBERSPACE SECURITY
Presidency of the Council of Ministers
December 2013

Report and Recommendations of The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies
12 December 2013

Cyberspace Operations
Dept. of the Navy - Dept. of the Air Force, 5 Feb. 2013

Introduction to Cyber-Warfare. A Multidisciplinary Approach
Paulo Shakarian, Jana Shakarian and Andrew Ruef
Elsevier, 2013

Cyberwar, Netwar and the Revolution in Military Affairs
Halpin, E., Trevorrow, P., Webb, D., Wright, S.
Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2006

Computers in the Battle. Will they Work?
D. Bellin, G. Chapman
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987

Arms and Artificial Intelligence
A. Din - SIPRI Monographs - Oxford University Press, 1987

Autonomous Weapons
Student's project at E. Roberts' course:
CS 181: Computers, Ethics, and Public Policy