Practice-based and public-deliberative normativity: retaining human control over the use of force

The debate about lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) characterises them as future problems in need of pre-emptive regulation, for example, through codifying meaningful human control. But technologies are already part and have shaped how states think To understand this normative space, I proceed two steps: first, theorise practices designing, training personnel for, operating weapon integrating normativity/normality on control at sites unseen. Second, trace interacts with public deliberations the Group Governmental Experts (GGE) LAWS by theorising potential dynamics interaction. find that emerging from performed relation to assigns humans a reduced role specific use force decisions understands diminished decision-making capacity ‘appropriate’ ‘normal’. In public-deliberative process, stakeholders interacted normativity ignoring it, engaging distancing or positively acknowledging it – rather than scrutinising it. These arguments move beyond prioritising deliberation norm research towards exploring outside eye productive normativity. process via international practice theories, critical security studies Science Technology scholarship draw out shape normativity, presenting ideas oughtness justice, normality, making something appear normal collective, repeated performances.