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Convention Centre / RAW Conference
« Last post by DaveIronside on Today at 10:08:57 PM »INVITATION TO CHAMWICK
At the age of 18 I was fortunate enough to be accepted as a reservist into what became my beloved Alpine Cadre. I still technically carry a commission within that Regiment and I do my best to keep up to date with the workings and functions of equipment at their disposal. While also being commander in chief of the East Moreland Armed Forces I like to think my knowledge of the systems utilised by the Cadre go above and beyond that expected of a normal commander in chief having had oppurtunities in Mavrosia and beyond to actually use them. While I am grateful to have equipment at the disposal of my forces that limit their exposure to danger I am also concerned that we, as humans, are allowing computers and in particular AI to make more and more decisions as to how we fight wars and ultimately how we strike targets. As a result we are making ourselves less accountable and I fear a time will come when nations will violate the Uppsala Convention due to actions outside human control. As such I am looking at putting together the Robotic and Autonomous Weapons Declaration. Just as we have committed ourselves to just measures in conventional warfare, outlawed chemical and biological weapons and thankfully scrapped nuclear ones we must now examine the next frontier of weapons that could potentially become a problem on Mundus. With this in mind I intend to invite delegations from all nations of Mundus to Chamwick to discuss the matter and review proposals to ensure we as humans retain our responsibilities.
May The Gods Watch Over You and Your Nations Know Peace
King David III of East Moreland.
Chamwick was the newest city in East Moreland and was one that was less accustomed to foreign conferences. The Universities campus had several buildings that would be more than adequete for such a conference and hopefully the creation of a treaty or decree of some sort. The King had several ideas in mind but naturally it would be important to try and bring the global community together. As such the King had arranged for each nation to take over a suite of rooms within one of the many new hotels that the city had and he'd even encouraged people to come early. There had been various dinners, shows in the threate and the like to help people meet before the conference, pre meeting diplomacy so to speak. Now though it was time to get started and the King and his Minister of Defence, Sir Harry Samuelson stood ready to welcome the various delegations who arrived. Inside the venue, a large room within the Faculty of Engineering, was usually used to host conferences between various businesses that meet as part of the conditions of having economic breaks for being in Chamwick. Companies had to undertake joint collaborative projects and here many deals between the likes of EMAC, SmartWar, OsmanTech and various others had taken place. A large lounge sat just outside the room where Queen Stasya, Princess Freya and Admiral James Thompson, the nations most senior military officer, were ready to mingle before the business of the day took place.