Ethics and Autonomous Weapons

TRAMA

 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.

SOMMARIO

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.

AUTORE

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. 

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9781137523600
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: VII, 131 p.
• Pagine Arabe: 131
• Pagine Romane: vii