THE EXPANSION OF THE DEBATE ON THE REGULATION OF AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS IN IBEROFONIA

This policy brief aims to analyze the strategies adopted by organized civil society groups involved in the international campaign Stop Killer Robots. Such strategies are based on promoting awareness activities from the associations and activities that are collaborators of the campaign from a bottom-up approach. The new phase of the SKR campaign focuses on promoting interparliamentary debates as a form of "direct politics," pressuring governments to adopt ethical stances on the use of artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons and evidencing the change in the perception of social risk caused by them. In political terms, these strategies represent a framework of innovation in the role of social actors who interact with each other - scientific community and civil society - in an attempt to be heard in states' decision-making. Adhering to the challenging proposal of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign, the InterAgency Institute promotes a pilot project of transnational advocacy through the 1st Interparliamentary Debate on Artificial Intelligence Applied to Defense in Iberofonia that aims to promote an interparliamentary focus group among members of the Iberian countries. The election of Portugal and Spain consists of reflecting the theme related to LAWS through the Portuguese language (260 million speakers) and the Spanish language (540 million speakers), to expand access to debate beyond the Anglo-Saxon world. The aim of an iberofonia proposal is the importance of strengthening the alignment of Iberian countries with the political position of SKR on the prohibition/regulation of LAWS, the consequent political, geographical, and linguistic influence of these countries in the global South, and finally, and to stimulate the exchange of good practices and solutions considering the Iberian Peninsula as a strategic geopolitical zone of migratory routes.