This article was written by former IWP Navy Fellow LTJG Joshua Fiveson and published by the Columbia Journal of International Affairs.
Robots have long presented a threat to some aspect of the human experience. What began with concern over the labor market slowly evolved into a full-blown existential debate over the future of mankind. But lost somewhere in between the assembly line and apocalypse stands a more immediate threat to the global order: the disruptive relationship between technology and international law.