(AGENPARL) – mar 28 novembre 2023 Dipartimento di
Giurisprudenza
“Smart Weapons”
Ethical and Juridical Questions
(University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and Military Academy)
Italian Section of AIDP (Association Internationale de Droit Pénal)
29th November 2023: Military Academy of Modena,
Aula Magna (14:30/19:00)
30th November 2023: University of Modena and
Reggio Emilia, Department of Law, Aula S (9:00/13:30)
Welcome Greetings
Ethical and juridical approach to the LAWS:
international regulation and legal responsibility
Chair: Luigi Foffani (Unimore)
Chair: Luigi Foffani (Unimore), Andrea Carcano (Unimore)
Keynote-Speech:
Military experience in the use of LAWS
(Gen. D.A. Claudio Gabellini, Commander COA)
Q&A Session: Discussant Michele Corradino (Consiglio di
Stato)
Introduction and Italian Report AIDP: Chantal Meloni
(University of Milan), Silvia Signorato (University of Padua)
A Malum in Se? Autonomous Weapons Systems
and Human Dignity between Ethics and Law (Daniele
Amoroso, University of Cagliari)
Coffee-Break (16:45/17:00)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Criminal Law: towards the
AIDP Congress 2024 (John Vervaele, University of Utrecht,
AIDP President; Lorenzo Picotti, University of Verona)
Ethical Principles in using LAWS (Javier Valls Prieto,
University of Granada)
Coffee-Break (10:30/10:45)
Modern technology and weapons: a historical
approach (Andrea Beccaro, University of Turin)
Regulating LAWS: An International Law perspective
(Eleonora Branca, University of Roma3)
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Fake News and Deepfakes
in contemporary war contexts: disinformation as
weapon? (Tommaso Guerini, University Pegaso of Naples)
The Supranational Law on LAWS: A Critical
Assessment (Federico Casolari, University of Bologna)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and weapons: a legal
informatics approach (Gianluigi Fioriglio, Unimore)
Drone Warfare: International Law facing the
unencumbered technology (Filippo Ruschi, University of
Florence)
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and weapons: a technological
approach (Michele Colajanni, University of Bologna)
Weapons systems and cybersecurity laws (Roberto Flor,
University of Verona)
Keynote-Speech:
“Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems” (LAWS), ius ad
bellum and ius in bello (Milena Sterio, Cleveland-Marshall
College of Law, USA)
“Mobile Smart City” and new scenarios of war (Rosa
Maria Vadalà, University of Verona)
Future opportunities of unsupervised AI based defence
systems (Rita Cucchiara, Unimore)
Discussion and Conclusions: Milena Sterio, (ClevelandMarshall College of Law, USA), John Vervaele (University of
Utrecht, AIDP President)