kaal:position:2026-07-31-7725

Accountability and Control Over Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Framework for Comprehensive Human Oversight presents the following source proposition: “Meaningful Human Control” is often mentioned as a requirement for the deployment of Autonomous Weapon Systems, but a common definition of what this notion means in practice, and a clear understanding of its relation with responsibility and accountability is also lacking. This proposition is pertinent to Kaal's source-bound claim that Custody of a digital asset is not physical possession but ownership and control over a digital asset wallet, which in practice means holding the private keys and bearing responsibility for keeping the funds safe. The proposed response is an extension: the relationship should remain limited to the retrieved source proposition and the mapped Kaal claim unless fuller source review supports a broader conclusion.

Affirmed commentary position. This record extends a source-bound scholarly claim but is not a verbatim paper claim.
Holds when
Current debate

Accountability and Control Over Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Framework for Comprehensive Human Oversight

Scholarly basis

kaal:claim:3936876-005
Wulf A. Kaal, Hayley Howe, Custody of Digital Assets (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3936876
Source PDF sha256: 9bc0903d01910460298e754c451f027df4324367359800a98ee8e638d94aff55

Evidence and mapping

Evidence: abstract indexed
Review tier: moderate-confidence claim review
Mapping confidence: 0.3763
Mapping ambiguous: true

Topics

defihistorical-responsescholarly-literaturecrossref

Provenance

Affirmed in kaal-review:2026-07-31:streaming-etl-0010 on 2026-07-31. Review record.

Verify

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