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Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Re-Examining the Law and Ethics of Robotic Warfare

Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Re-Examining the Law and Ethics of Robotic Warfare

Author: Jai Galliott; Duncan MacIntosh; Jens David Ohlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197546048
Published In: April 2021
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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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.

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 & Autonomy: Problematizing the Meaningful Human Control Argument Against Killer Robots

Tim McFarland & Jai Galliott

Chapter Four: The Humanitarian Imperative For Minimally-Just AI In Weapons

Jason Scholz and Jai Galliott

Humans, Robots & Values

Chapter Five: Programming Precision? Requiring Robust Transparency for AWS

Steven J. Barela & 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 Fifteen: 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