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Autonomous Weapons Systems can use artificial intelligence to identify, track and attack a target without any human intervention. They can also be used to defend. Many ethical questions surround their use, including whether they are really worse than a human giving the command to drop a bomb on a city? In the week that marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II, Audrey Carville was joined by Professor Elke Schwarz (vice chairperson of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control), Bernd Stahl (Professor of Critical Research in Technology at the University of Nottingham who also served as a drone platoon commander in the German Army) and theologian Dr Elaine Storkey.

Rev Bill Shaw joined us to discuss his 27 years at the helm of The 174 Trust and his work peace building in New Lodge and beyond.

And a few weeks ago, the Catholic primate of All Ireland Archbishop Eamon Martin joined other church leaders at Lough Neagh and said its ecological state was tantamount to a spiritual and moral crisis. What is our moral duty to protect it? And if government action can't fix it, should the citizens step in? Dr Louise Taylor (political ecologist and researcher at Queen's University's Centre for Sustainability Equality and Climate Action) and Rebekah McCabe (Involve NI) explained some of the options.