Description
The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapon systems has been the subject of debate for the better part of a decade. Despite the claims of advocacy groups, the way ahead remains unclear since the international community has yet to agree on a specific definition of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and the great powers have largely refused to support an effective ban. In this vacuum, the public has been presented with a heavily one-sided view of Killer Robots.This volume presents a more nuanced approach to autonomous weapon systems that recognizes the need to progress beyond a discourse framed by the Terminator and HAL 9000. Re-shaping the discussion around this emerging military innovation requires a new line of thought and a willingness to challenge the orthodoxy.Lethal Autonomous Weapons focuses on exploring the moral and legal issues associated with the design, development and deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. In this volume, we bring together some of the most prominent academics and academic-practitioners in the lethal autonomous weapons space and seek to return some balance to the debate. As part of this effort, we recognize that society needs to invest in hard conversations that tackle the ethics, morality, and law of these new digital technologies and understand the human role in their creation and operation.
Table of Contents
IntroductionList of ContributorsThe Case for Lethal Autonomous WeaponsChapter One: Fire and Forget: A Moral Defense of the Use of Autonomous Weapons Systems in War and PeaceDuncan MacIntoshChapter Two: The Robot Dogs of WarDeane-Peter BakerChapter Three: Understanding AI & Autonomy: Problematizing the Meaningful Human Control Argument Against Killer RobotsTim McFarland & Jai GalliottChapter Four: The Humanitarian Imperative For Minimally-Just AI In WeaponsJason Scholz and Jai GalliottHumans, Robots & ValuesChapter Five: Programming Precision? Requiring Robust Transparency for AWSSteven J. Barela & Avery PlawChapter Six: May Machines Take Lives to Save Lives? Human Perceptions of Autonomous Robots (with the Capacity to Kill)Matthias Scheutz and Bertram F. MalleChapter Seven: The Better Instincts of Humanity: Humanitarian Arguments in Defense of International Arms ControlNatalia Jevglevskaja and Rain LiivojaChapter Eight: Toward a Positive Statement of Ethical Principles for Military AIJai GalliottChapter Nine: Empirical Data on Attitudes Towards Autonomous SystemsJai Galliott, Bianca Baggiarini, Sean RupkaThe Rationality of AutomaticityChapter Ten: The Automation of Authority: Discrepancies with Jus Ad Bellum PrinciplesDonovan PhillipsChapter Eleven: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of Armed ConflictAlex LeveringhausChapter Twelve: Autonomous Weapons and Reactive AttitudesJens David OhlinChapter Thirteen: Blind brains and moral machines: neuroscience and autonomous weapon systemsNicholas G. EvansDeveloping Meaningful Human ControlChapter Fourteen: Enforced Transparency: A Solution to Autonomous Weapons as Potentially Uncontrollable Weapons Similar to BioweaponsArmin KrishnanChapter 15: Normative Epistemology for Lethal Autonomous Weapons SystemsKate DevittChapter Sixteen: Proposing a regional normative framework for limiting the potential for unintentional or escalatory engagements with increasingly autonomous weapon systems.Austin Wyatt and Jai GalliottChapter Seventeen: The Human Role in Autonomous Weapon Design and DeploymentM.L. Cummings
