Governing lethal behavior in autonomous robots
By: author, Ronald Arkin.
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boca Raton, Fla
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781420085945
Subjects: Military robots -- Moral and ethical aspects; Autonomous robots -- Moral and ethical aspects; Robots -- Control systems; Robotics -- Military applications; Robotics -- Moral and ethical aspects; Military ethics; War -- Moral and ethical aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Trends toward lethality; title: Human failings in the battlefield; title: Related philosophical thought; title: What people think : opinions on lethal autonomous systems; title: Formalization for ethical control; title: Specific issues for lethality : what to represent; title: Representational choices : how to represent ethics in a lethal robot; title: Architectural considerations for governing lethality; title: Design options; title: Example scenarios for the ethical use of force; title: A prototype implementation; title: Appendix A: Relevant laws of war; title: Appendix B: Acronyms; title: Appendix C: Notation.