Roboethics pp 139-153 | Cite as

War Roboethics

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Abstract

Military robots are receiving increasing use in modern conflicts of arms, and naturally give rise to severe war robot ethical questions concerning the firing decision, discrimination, responsibility, and proportionality. This chapter starts with background material on the war concept and the ethical issues/laws of war. Then, it discusses the ethics of autonomous or semiautonomous robots in war, and presents the principal arguments against autonomous war robots (inability to program war laws, human out of the firing loop, lower barriers to war), also including some positive arguments about war robots.

Keywords

Armed Conflict Geneva Convention United Nations Security Council Human Right Watch Ethical Governor 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.School of Electrical and Computer EngineeringNational Technical University of AthensAthensGreece

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