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 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.

• | Author: Alex Leveringhaus
• | Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• | Publication Date: Jan 06, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 138 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1137523603
• | ISBN-13: 9781137523600