Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security - A Framework for Addressing Ethical, Legal, and Societal Issues

"Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security addresses topics such as the ethics of using autonomous weapons that may be available in the future; the propriety of enhancing the physical or cognitive capabilities of soldiers with drugs or implants or prosthetics; and what limits, if any, should be placed on the nature and extent of economic damage that cyber weapons can cause. This report explores three areas with respect to emerging and rapidly available technologies: the conduct of research; research applications; and unanticipated, unforeseen, or inadvertent ethical, legal, and societal issues. The report articulates a framework for policy makers, institutions, and individual researchers to think about issues as they relate to these technologies of military relevance and makes recommendations for how each of these groups should approach these considerations in its research activities."--Publisher's description.

Summary

Offers a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology.

Product details

• Authors: Board On Life Sciences, Ethics Center for Engineering, Center for Engineering Ethics and Societ, Center for Engineering Ethics and Society Advisory Group, Committee on Ethical and Societal Implic, Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies That Are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible, Technology Committee on Science, Committee on Science Technology and Law, Computer Science And Telecommunications, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Academy Of Engineering, National Research Council
• Assisted by: William F Ballhaus (Editor), William F. Ballhaus (Editor), Jean-Lou Chameau (Editor), Herbert S Lin (Editor), Herbert S. Lin (Editor)
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.04.2014
• EAN: 9780309293341
• ISBN: 978-0-309-29334-1
• No. of pages: 348
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 226 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education