Autonomous Military Systems
Collective responsibility and distributed burdens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21703492 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Niël Henk Conradie (0000-0002-1916-3171, RWTH Aachen University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethics and Information Technology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1388-1957 • E-ISSN: 1572-8439 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10676-023-09696-9 |
| OpenAlex | W4321599935 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 53 |
The introduction of Autonomous Military Systems (AMS) onto contemporary battlefields raises concerns that they will bring with them the possibility of a techno-responsibility gap, leaving insecurity about how to attribute responsibility in scenarios involving these systems. In this work I approach this problem in the domain of applied ethics with foundational conceptual work on autonomy and responsibility. I argue that concerns over the use of AMS can be assuaged by recognising the richly interrelated context in which these systems will most likely be deployed. This will allow us to move beyond the solely individualist understandings of responsibility at work in most treatments of these cases, toward one that includes collective responsibility. This allows us to attribute collective responsibility to the collectives of which the AMS form a part, and to account for the distribution of burdens that follows from this attribution. I argue that this expansion of our responsibility practices will close at least some otherwise intractable techno-responsibility gaps
Attribution · Autonomy · Collective responsibility · Environmental ethics · Individualism · Law and economics · Moral responsibility · Political science · Public relations · Social responsibility · Sociology · Engineering · Free Will and Agency · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Psychology · Social Psychology · War, Ethics, and Justification
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Hard Luck
Responsibility from the Margins
The responsibility gap
Meaningful Human Control over Autonomous Systems
Responsibility Incorporated
Killer Robots
Autonomy
Participant Reactive Attitudes and Collective Responsibility
Collective Moral Responsibility
The Importance of What We Care About
Collective Responsibility Gaps
The Theory and Practice of Autonomy
Collective Responsibility and Collective Obligations Without Collective Moral Agents
Group Duties
Terrorism, Retribution, and Collective Responsibility
Autonomous Weapons and Distributed Responsibility
The Possibility of Practical Reason
Essays on Actions and Events
Group Duties Without Decision-Making Procedures
Individual and Collective Moral Responsibility for Systemic Military Atrocity
Smart Sanctions Revisited
Existence, really? Tacit disagreements about “existence” in disputes about group minds and corporate agents
What are social groups? Their metaphysics and how to classify them
Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason
In Praise of Desire
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |