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Lethal Autonomous Weapons explores the moral and legal issues associated with the design, development, and deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. This volume brings together some of the most prominent academics and academic-practitioners in the lethal autonomous weapons space and seeks to return some balance to the debate.
List of contents
- Introduction
- List of Contributors
- The Case for Lethal Autonomous Weapons
- Chapter One: Fire and Forget: A Moral Defense of the Use of Autonomous Weapons Systems in War and Peace
- Duncan MacIntosh
- Chapter Two: The Robot Dogs of War
- Deane-Peter Baker
- Chapter Three: Understanding AI and Autonomy: Problematizing the Meaningful Human Control Argument Against Killer Robots
- Tim McFarland and Jai Galliott
- Chapter Four: The Humanitarian Imperative For Minimally-Just AI In Weapons
- Jason Scholz and Jai Galliott
- Humans, Robots and Values
- Chapter Five: Programming Precision? Requiring Robust Transparency for AWS
- Steven J. Barela and Avery Plaw
- Chapter Six: May Machines Take Lives to Save Lives? Human Perceptions of Autonomous Robots (with the Capacity to Kill)
- Matthias Scheutz and Bertram F. Malle
- Chapter Seven: The Better Instincts of Humanity: Humanitarian Arguments in Defense of International Arms Control
- Natalia Jevglevskaja and Rain Liivoja
- Chapter Eight: Toward a Positive Statement of Ethical Principles for Military AI
- Jai Galliott
- Chapter Nine: Empirical Data on Attitudes Towards Autonomous Systems
- Jai Galliott, Bianca Baggiarini, Sean Rupka
- The Rationality of Automaticity
- Chapter Ten: The Automation of Authority: Discrepancies with Jus Ad Bellum Principles
- Donovan Phillips
- Chapter Eleven: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of Armed Conflict
- Alex Leveringhaus
- Chapter Twelve: Autonomous Weapons and Reactive Attitudes
- Jens David Ohlin
- Chapter Thirteen: Blind brains and moral machines: neuroscience and autonomous weapon systems
- Nicholas G. Evans
- Developing Meaningful Human Control
- Chapter Fourteen: Enforced Transparency: A Solution to Autonomous Weapons as Potentially Uncontrollable Weapons Similar to Bioweapons
- Armin Krishnan
- Chapter 15: Normative Epistemology for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
- Kate Devitt
- Chapter Sixteen: Proposing a regional normative framework for limiting the potential for unintentional or escalatory engagements with increasingly autonomous weapon systems.
- Austin Wyatt and Jai Galliott
- Chapter Seventeen: The Human Role in Autonomous Weapon Design and Deployment
- M.L. Cummings
About the author
Jai Galliott is Director of the Values in Defence & Security Technology Group at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Non-Residential Fellow at the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy, West Point and Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford. Dr Galliott has developed a reputation as one of the foremost experts on the socio-ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and is regarded as an internationally respected scholar on the ethical, legal and strategic issues associated with the employment of emerging technologies, including cyber systems, autonomous vehicles and soldier augmentation
Duncan MacIntosh is a Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Dalhousie University. Professor MacIntosh works in metaethics, decision and action theory, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of science. He has written on desire-based theories of rationality, the relationship between
rationality and time, the reducibility of morality to rationality, modeling morality and rationality with the tools of action and game theory, scientific realism, and a number of other topics.
Jens David Ohlin is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Law School. He specializes in international law and criminal law. He specifically focuses on the laws of war with special emphasis on the effects of new technology on the waging of warfare, including unmanned drones in the strategy of targeted killings, cyber-warfare, and the role of non-state actors in armed conflicts. He authored The Assault on International Law (2015).
Summary
Lethal Autonomous Weapons explores the moral and legal issues associated with the design, development, and deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. This volume brings together some of the most prominent academics and academic-practitioners in the lethal autonomous weapons space and seeks to return some balance to the debate.
