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Drones and Responsibility: Legal, Philosophical and Socio-Technical Perspectives on Remotely Controlled Weapons

Drones and Responsibility: Legal, Philosophical and Socio-Technical Perspectives on Remotely Controlled Weapons

Author: Ezio Di Nucci; Dr Filippo Santoni de Sio; Dr Jai Galliot; Avery Plaw; Katina Michael; Steven J Barela
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781472456724

Published In: July 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781138390669

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How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and design?

This volume offers a fresh contribution to the ethics of drone warfare by providing, for the first time, a systematic interdisciplinary discussion of different responsibility issues raised by military drones. The book discusses four main sets of questions:-

First, from a legal point of view, we analyse the ways in which the use of drones makes the attribution of criminal responsibility to individuals for war crimes more complicated and what adjustments may be required in international criminal law and in military practices to avoid ’responsibility gaps’ in warfare.

From a moral and political perspective, the volume looks at the conditions under which the use of military drones by states is impermissible, permissible, or even obligatory and what the responsibilities of a state in the use of drones towards both its citizens and potential targets are. From a socio-technical perspective, what kind of new human machine interaction might (and should) drones bring and which new kinds of shared agency and responsibility?

Finally, we ask how the use of drones changes our conception of agency and responsibility. The book will be of interest to scholars and students in (military) ethics and to those in law, politics and the military involved in the design, deployment and evaluation of military drones.

Preface

Introduction: drones and responsibility: mapping the field, Filippo Santoni de Sio and Ezio Di Nucci

Part 1

Drones and Legal Responsibility: Autonomous drones and individual criminal responsibility, Dan Saxon

State and individual responsibility for targeted killings by drones, Chantal Meloni

Part 2

States Responsibility and the Use of Drones: Autonomous killer robots are probably good news, Vincent C. Muller

Moral identity and remote controlled killing: a missing perspective, Bernhard Koch

State responsibility and drone operators. Jesse Kirkpatrick

Part 3

Design and Socio-Technical Perspectives: The threshold of killing drones: the modular Turing imitation game, Asa Kasher

Delegation and responsibility: a human-machine perspective, Tjerk de Greef

Civilizing drones by design, Aimee van Wynsberghe and Michael Nagenborg

Part 4

Drones and Moral Responsibility: Drones, automated targeting, and moral responsibility, Alex Leveringhaus

Drones @ combat - enhanced information warfare and three moral claims of combat drone responsibility, Michael Funk, Bernhard Irrgang and Silvio Leuteritz

Autonomous killer drones, Nikil Mukerji

Index.