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1404896

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date	20/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Autonomous Weapons: International Cooperation
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans he has for the UK to bring forward global measures to tackle the development of lethal autonomous weapons systems in response to the December 2021 Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	108615
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2022 answer text <p>We were pleased that the Review Conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons renewed the mandate of the Group of Government Experts on Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. The UK will continue to play a leading and active role in that forum, working with the international community to agree norms and positive obligations to ensure the safe and responsible use of autonomy, balancing the legitimate security interest in these new technologies with humanitarian, ethical and legal concerns.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 28/01/2022 11:11:49 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1404904

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Defence: Artificial Intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what progress has been made on the Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence Collaboration (AAIC) Partnership Agreement signed with the US Air Force Research Laboratory in December 2020; and if he will place a copy of that agreement in the Library.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	108618
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>Thanks to this collaboration good progress has been made in developing AI and Autonomy tools for use against priority operational challenges and scenarios. The latest milestone event (along with a review conducted by the deputy principles) was held in October 2021, demonstrating how the UK and US can integrate AI technology to create an end-to-end machine learning research development and deployment ecosystem, enabling rapid data-sharing and algorithm development, evaluation and deployment: . A report was published and is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/news/us-and-uk-research-labs-collaborate-on-autonomy-and-ai.</p><p> </p><p>We do not intend to place the Project Arrangement in the House Library. The hon. Member may also wish to be aware that the Project Arrangement would fall within the scope of the qualified exemption provided for at Section 27 (International Relations) of the Freedom of Information Act. I am therefore withholding the information as its disclosure would or would be likely to prejudice relations between the United Kingdom and another State.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 26/01/2022 15:15:33 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1404905

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Joint Exercises: Artificial intelligence
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, if he will publish a list of the systems and technologies that utilised autonomy and/or machine learning during the Contested Urban Environment (CUE) exercise with the five-eye nations in September and October 2021.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	108619
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 28/01/2022 answer text <p>CUE2021 was a multi-national event to test the latest intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology capabilities, working with US, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand allies. It comprised a series of experiments that were designed to explore new technologies that could help address some of the challenges faced by military personnel operating in overseas city environments.</p><p>The following technologies that attended CUE2021 employed either autonomy or machine learning:</p><p> </p><p>Technologies and advanced sensors to enhance Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance capability:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Sensors for Asset Protection using Integrated Electronic Network Technology</li><li>WISDOM Research &amp; Development Platform for Data/Information/Knowledge Integration, Fusion, and Analytics</li><li>Network Uncrewed Systems for Intelligence Preparation of the Environment</li><li>Command &amp; Control for Uncrewed Vehicle Transfer of Tactical Control.</li></ul><p> </p><p>Systems to autonomously prioritise information that is presented to the human analyst, using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to identify threats:</p><p> </p><ul><li>RESTful Analytics</li><li>Artificial Intelligence for the detection of crowds</li><li>Sieve, Process, Forward</li><li>Track Analytics for Effective Triage of Wide Area Surveillance Data</li></ul><p> </p><p>Robotic and Autonomous Systems to remove human operators from dangerous tasks by supporting logistics re-supply:</p><p> </p><ul><li>Joint Tactical Autonomous Resupply and Replenishment.</li></ul> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 28/01/2022 11:13:13 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1404909

registered interest
date	20/01/2022
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Autonomous Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the Government's policy is on the UK developing systems that operate without human intervention in the weapon command and control chain.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	108620
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2022 answer text <p>The United Kingdom does not possess, and has no intention of developing fully autonomous systems which operate without human intervention in the weapon command and control chain.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>When deploying autonomous weapon systems, we will always ensure meaningful and context-appropriate human involvement across the system lifecycle from development to deployment, ensuring human responsibility for outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 26/01/2022 15:17:31 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1260343

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Autonomous Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of supporting a ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	128271
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>The UK considers the extant international legal framework on the development, assurance and deployment of military systems as sufficient.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 15/12/2020 16:53:56 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith

1260347

registered interest
date	10/12/2020
answering body	Ministry of Defence
answering dept id	11
answering dept short name	Defence
answering dept sort name	Defence
hansard heading	Autonomous Weapons
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans the Government has to develop systems that operate without human intervention in the weapon command and control chain.
tabling member constituency	Stirling
tabling member printed	Alyn Smith
uin	128272
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/12/2020 answer text <p>The United Kingdom has no intention of developing systems which operate without any human intervention in the weapon command and control chain.</p> answering member constituency Horsham answering member printed Jeremy Quin question first answered 15/12/2020 16:57:16 answering member 4507 label Biography information for Sir Jeremy Quin
tabling member	4738 label Biography information for Alyn Smith