Ethics And Autonomous Weapons
Palgrave Pivot
ISBN13:
9781137523600
$76.99
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
- 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