“…The transition to autonomous will not happen overnight, but it has certainly begun and appears to be gathering speed. Second, the ramping up of interest and development in uncrewed ships has already begun to impact a range of agencies and actors involved in shipping, whether military (UKRN, 2021Fuentes, 2022;Gambrell, 2022;Verma, 2022), commercial (Chircop, 2018;Soyer and Tettenborn, 2021), governmental (Hound, 2019;Taeihagh and Lim, 2019;MOD, 2022;UKMIA, 2022); or whether they operate in the fields of law (Surian, 2020), insurance (Allianz, 2019), cybersecurity (Tam and Jones, 2018b;Kardakova et al, 2020), engineering (IMarEST, 2017, ship design (Koushan, 2018), communications (Amos, 2022), space travel (Howell, 2021), or indeed any other area with a connection to the maritime domain. Even the operations of organized criminal enterprises such as smugglers (Sutton, 2019), pirates and terrorists will be (Petrig, 2021), or have already been (Rocks, 2022), transformed to some extent by this technology.…”