Paper Info
Title
War and Peace: Ethical Challenges and Risks in Military Robotics
Abstract
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) designs, constructs, and deploys social and autonomous robots and robotic weapons systems. Military robots are designed to follow the rules and conduct of the professions or roles they emulate, and it is expected that ethical principles are applied and aligned with such roles. The application of these principles appear paramount during the COVID-19 global pandemic, wherein substitute technologies are crucial in carrying out duties as humans are more restrained due to safety restrictions. This article seeks to examine the ethical implications of the utilization of military robots. The research assesses ethical challenges faced by the United States DoD regarding the use of social and autonomous robots in the military. The authors provide a summary of the current status of these lethal autonomous and social military robots, ethical and moral issues related to their design and deployment, a discussion of policies, and the call for an international discourse on appropriate governance of such systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.4018/IJIIT.2021070101
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Artificial Intelligence, Ethical Designs, Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Military Robots, Moral Competence, Roboethics
Journal
17
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1548-3657
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Racquel D. Brown-Gaston100.34
Anshu Saxena Arora200.68