Others appreciate the exchange and deepening of discussions on the challenges ahead, but do not readily accept that LAWS exist, or that entirely autonomous weapons systems will ever exit, because there will always be some degree of human oversight. They believe national assessments under Article 36 of Protocol I of the Geneva Conventions suffice, though this evidently does not lead to an internationally harmonized procedure that can be verified or peer reviewed under a common set of rules and principles.
Statement by Brazil under agenda item 5 (9 April 2018)
