Ethics and Autonomous Weapons

Alex Leveringhaus (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

131 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Palgrave Pivot (Verlag)
978-1-137-52360-0 (ISBN)

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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 these weapons claim that ‘taking the human out-of-the-loop’ represents a further step towards the de-humanisation of warfare, while advocates of this type of technology contend that the power of machine autonomy can potentially be harnessed in order to prevent war crimes. This book provides a thorough and critical assessment of these two positions. Written by a political philosopher at the forefront of the autonomous weapons debate, the book clearly assesses the ethical and legal ramifications of autonomous weapons, and presents a novel ethical argument against fully autonomous weapons.

Alex Leveringhaus is a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is also a James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School. Prior to these positions, he held a joint appointment as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at ELAC and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology.

Acknowledgments. Chapter I/Introduction: Ethics and the autonomous weapons debate. Chapter II: Autonomous weaponry: conceptual issues. Chapter III: From warfare without humans to warfare without responsibility? . Chapter IV: Human agency and artificial agency in war. Chapter V: Conclusion. Bibliography. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.01.2016
Zusatzinfo	VII, 131 p.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Autonomous weapons • drones • Just War Theory • Killer robots • Military Ethics • Miltary technology • robots • warfare
ISBN-10	1-137-52360-3 / 1137523603
ISBN-13	978-1-137-52360-0 / 9781137523600
Zustand	Neuware