Veterans Law Speaker Event
- When
- Wednesday, November 11, 202612:00 PM – 1:00 PM ESTAdd to calendarGoogle Calendar
- Where
- Room 299 UK Law SchoolOpen in Maps
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About
We will have a guest speaker, Kirk Sripinyo (UK Law Professor). The event will run 1 hour. We are providing outside food (most likely Chick Fil A). I have pasted Professor Sripinyo's description of his presentation below. This event will be open to all students, with a special focus on veterans, for Veterans Day.
"I think I’d like to present a talk titled, “Drafting Einstein: The Citizen-Soldier in the Age of Lethal Autonomous Weapons and Artificial Intelligence.”
The talk would begin with the development of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) systems into FPV drone warfare in Ukraine, focusing on how that evolution has increased the value of technologically sophisticated frontline soldiers and complicated the traditional view of soldiers as primarily “trigger pullers.” From there, I’d explore how lethal autonomous weapons systems and AI may further shift military demand toward engineers, scientists, and other technical specialists who can design, adapt, and operate these systems. Finally, it will examine what that shift might mean for our understanding of who, or what, counts as a citizen-soldier."