The Inaugural Workshop of the Programme on the Ethics & Law of Trusted Autonomous Systems was held on May 23–24, 2019 at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. Co-hosted by Oxford’s Centre for Technology and Global Affairs, the workshop was part of a new initiative — between the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy and the University of Queensland on the ethics and law of trusted autonomous systems — recently launched by the Trusted Autonomous Systems Defence Cooperative Research Centre under the Australian Next Generation Technologies Fund.

Mr. Dustin A. Lewis, Senior Researcher at the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC), gave a presentation on the “Legal Considerations” panel. In his presentation, Mr. Lewis examined certain legal dimensions concerning trust, with a focus on the preservation of State and individual responsibility in respect of “autonomous” and related technologies.