Ethics and autonomous weapons / Alex Leveringhaus.

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Ethics and autonomous weapons / Alex Leveringhaus.

9781137523617 (electronic book)
1137523611 (electronic book)
9781349706495
1349706493
9781137523600
1137523603

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2016.

English

1 online resource (vii, 131 pages)

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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.

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