Denise
Garcia
Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs
Expertise
Denise Garcia in the Press
Ethics & International Affairs
Governing lethal autonomous weapons systems
A lethal robotic future is underway. And, if the recently-released short film “Slaughterbots” is any indication, that future is bleak, argues Northeastern professor Denise Garcia.
Foreign Affairs
Battle bots: How the world should prepare itself for robotic warfare
People living today find their lives bookended by two eras of weaponry: nuclear arms and the emerging threat of lethal autonomous weapons. On the one hand, nuclear Armageddon is still a real risk as states fail to live up to their legal obligations to disarm and dispose of their nuclear stockpiles. Lethal autonomous robotic weaponry, […]
Foreign Affairs
Disarming the lords of war
To understand how poorly the global arms trade is regulated, consider this: For a $70 billion industry that produces seven to eight million firearms annually, it loses one million weapons every year to arms traders like the notorious Viktor Bout (a.k.a. the Merchant of Death) who sold weapons to warlords and terrorists from the 1990s […]
Foreign Affairs
The case against killer robots
In the Terminator movies, fully autonomous robots wage war against humanity. Although cyborg assassins won’t be arriving from the future anytime soon, offensive “Terminator-style” autonomous robots that are programmed to kill could soon escape Hollywood science fiction and become reality. This actual rise of the machines raises important strategic, moral, and legal questions about whether […]
