The Ethics & Morality of Robotic Warfare
Assessing the Debate over Autonomous Weapons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9685555 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael C Horowitz (0000-0002-3067-7157, MICHAEL C. HOROWITZ is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Associate Director of Penn's Perry World House. He formerly worked for the U.S. Department of Defense. His publications include Why Leaders Fight (2015) and The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International Politics (2010). You can follow him on Twitter@mchorowitz, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 145 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 25-36 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Daedalus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192 |
| Publisher | MIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1162/daed_a_00409 |
| OpenAlex | W2521953874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
There is growing concern in some quarters that the drones used by the United States and others represent precursors to the further automation of military force through the use of lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS). These weapons, though they do not generally exist today, have already been the subject of multiple discussions at the United Nations. Do autonomous weapons raise unique ethical questions for warfare, with implications for just war theory? This essay describes and assesses the ongoing debate, focusing on the ethical implications of whether autonomous weapons can operate effectively, whether human accountability and responsibility for autonomous weapon systems are possible, and whether delegating life and death decisions to machines inherently undermines human dignity. The concept of LAWS is extremely broad and this essay considers LAWS in three categories: munition, platforms, and operational systems
Accountability · Biological warfare · Dignity · Drone · Engineering ethics · Environmental ethics · Law and economics · Morality · Political science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · War, Ethics, and Justification
People are averse to machines making moral decisions
Plural ontology of the international
The need for and nature of a normative, cultural psychology of weaponized AI (artificial intelligence)
Autonomous weapon systems and jus ad bellum
Moral Values Related to Autonomous Weapon Systems
To Each Technology Its Own Ethics
Locating Laws
Charting great power progress toward a lethal autonomous weapon system demonstration point
Autonomous weapons
War and peace in the age of AI
A “journey to trust” for AI
Predictors of support for a ban on killer robots
Leveraging autonomous weapon systems
Unusual middle power activism and regime survival
When speed kills
Artificial intelligence and moral dilemmas
Probabilities towards death
Robótica Militar y Teoría de la Guerra Justa. Consideraciones éticas ante las armas letales autónomas
| Unique citing works | 18 |
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| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |