News Articles with Category: Ethics
October 5, 2014 – via Office of Naval Research
Messages are relayed and the small escort boats begin moving. Detecting the enemy vessel with radar and infrared sensors, they perform a series of maneuvers to encircle the craft, coming close enough to the boat to engage it and near enough to one another to seal off any potential escape or access to the ship they are guarding.
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July 10, 2014 – via Wall Street Journal
A ban-the-bots movement is growing, but first the military should find out what such autonomous systems can do.
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May 13, 2014 – via Defense One
We’re talking about putting robots in more and more contexts in which we can’t predict what they’re going to do, what kind of situations they’ll encounter. So they need to do some kind of ethical reasoning in order to sort through various options
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April 9, 2013 – via Hoover Institute
Why a Ban Won’t Work and How the Laws of War Can.
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October 2, 2012 – via Science
Oil spill researchers have their preliminary data subpoenaed by BP.
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July 15, 2012 – via New York Times
It may be a surprise to find that some moral philosophers, political scientists and weapons specialists believe armed, unmanned aircraft offer marked moral advantages over almost any other tool of warfare.
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December 15, 2011 – via Atlantic
Last month, philosopher Patrick Lin delivered this briefing about the ethics of drones at an event hosted by In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture-capital arm. It’s a thorough and unnerving survey of what it might mean for the intelligence service to deploy different kinds of robots.
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December 15, 2010 – via Stanford Law School
Related to my work here in robot ethics, the following is an advance look at my paper forthcoming in Journal of Military Ethics:
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October 22, 2010 – via Reuters
A U.N. investigator called on the world body on Friday to set up a panel to study the ethics and legality of unmanned military weapons
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September 27, 2010 – via Discover Magazine
In the skies above Afghanistan and along the roadsides of Iraq, unmanned military machines are changing the nature of combat. These robots may soon be making life-or-death decisions themselves.
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