Ethics and Autonomous Weapons
This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention by a human operator. Critics of thes
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Ethics and Autonomous Weapons
Alex Leveringhaus
Ethics and Autonomous Weapons
Alex Leveringhaus Manor Road Building University of Oxford Oxford, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-52360-0 ISBN 978-1-137-52361-7 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-52361-7
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book is based on academic research carried out for the ‘Military Human Enhancement: Design for Responsibility and Combat Systems’ project, funded for the duration of three years (2012–2015) by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). The project was run in collaboration between the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), Netherlands, and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC) based in the Department of Politics and International Relations (DPIR) at the University of Oxford (UK). The support of NWO, ELAC, DPIR, and TU Delft is gratefully acknowledged. The purpose of the Military Human Enhancement project was to investigate the ethical, legal, and technological challenges posed by emerging weapons technologies, especially remote-controlled and autonomous targeting systems. This meant that the project involved an interdisciplinary group of researchers, ranging from philosophers and ethicists to cognitive engineers and computer scientists. Although this book focuses on the ethical challenges posed by the so-called autonomous weapons, it has benefited immensely from discussions with technologists based at TU Delft, in particular Dr Tjerk de Greef, Dr Mareike Peeters
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