What's wrong with drones? Automatization and target selection
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5723931 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andree-Anne Melancon (0000-0003-1011-2762, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 801-821 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Small Wars and Insurgencies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-2318 • E-ISSN: 1743-9558 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09592318.2020.1743486 |
| OpenAlex | W3033379067 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 9 |
Developments in artificial intelligence have ignited many debates on the use of autonomous weapons and ‘killer robots.’ However, before autonomous attack decisions can be explored, issues related to target selection need to be considered. Focusing the discussion on drones and artificial intelligence overshadows more fundamental issues. This paper therefore argues that the main ethical problem raised by autonomous drones do not come from the weapon system or technology itself. Instead, they stem from challenges of target identification. Thus, asking ‘what’s wrong with drones?’ is misleading as it focusses on the technology instead of the primary issue of target selection
Biology · Computer security · Drone · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning · Computer Science · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · War, Ethics, and Justification · Artificial Intelligence · Genetics
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |