Value Sensitive Design for autonomous weapon systems – a primer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21703517 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Boshuijzen-van Burken (0000-0001-7368-5002, UNSW Sydney, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| 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/s10676-023-09687-w |
| OpenAlex | W4320039645 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 48 |
Value Sensitive Design (VSD) is a design methodology developed by Batya Friedman and Peter Kahn (2003) that brings in moral deliberations in an early stage of a design process. It assumes that neither technology itself is value neutral, nor shifts the value-ladennes to the sole usage of technology. This paper adds to emerging literature onVSD for autonomous weapons systems development and discusses extant literature on values in autonomous systems development in general and in autonomous weapons development in particular. I identify opportunities, such as public debates, and threats, such as the classified nature of the design process, for VSD in autonomous weapons development. This paper contributes to academic debates about the non-neutrality of technology by pointing out that values have been and can be explicitly designed into autonomous systems. It is informative for policy makers and designers who are tasked with developing actual autonomous weapons or policies around such systems, as they learn about an established design methodology that is sensitive to societal concerns and industry needs and that can be applied to autonomous weapons systems
Computer security · Extant taxon · Neutrality · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Technology Assessment and Management
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Moral Predators
Meaningful Human Control over Autonomous Systems
On the Morality of Artificial Agents
Designing Robots for Care
The Case for Ethical Autonomy in Unmanned Systems
Engineering and the Problem of Moral Overload
Coupling levels of abstraction in understanding meaningful human control of autonomous weapons
A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons Systems
The future of war
Machine morality
Social choice ethics in artificial intelligence
Moral Values Related to Autonomous Weapon Systems
Emotions and Risky Technologies
Synthesizing value sensitive design, responsible research and innovation, and energy justice
Responsible innovation as an endorsement of public values
The moral psychology of value sensitive design
Value-sensitive design
An Overview of the Schwartz Theory of Basic Values
Remote Split
Is Technology Value-Neutral
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |