Is There A State's Right to Security?

Artificial intelligence as tool of deepening global security and defense inequalities

Resumo

This study aims to explore the consequences of the use of artificial intelligence (AI) systems to deepen defense and security inequalities and its interaction with a right to security. The possible future effects of a bigger adoption of automated systems in the strategic area are notable. One can realize, though, that, as in other moments of history, the states’ capacity of assuring its own security associates itself with the level of technological advancement of the nation, which implies that Global South countries’ technological inequalities also have strategic asymmetry as a consequence. Hence, a realist logic of observing the international system is intensified, as there is an even greater affirmation of those who detain the force, or, in this case, technological dominance. Although, a notion of a right to security is based on the Theory of the International Society, recognizing shared expectations from the common agreements on norms, even if they are crossed by issues such as capacity and context. Regulation proposals on legal automated systems are also explored, in a sense that rule-making and enforcing are constructed in a way so as to diminish or to break the raising of technological-strategic asymmetries. As results, it was possible to notice that the right to security is being compromised by autonomous weapons draft regulations that are vague, which are even being proposed by South Global countries.