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97“Trust but Verify”: The Difficulty of Trusting Autonomous Weapons SystemsJournal of Military Ethics 17 (1): 2-20. 2018.ABSTRACTAutonomous weapons systems pose many challenges in complex battlefield environments. Previous discussions of them have largely focused on technological or policy issues. In contrast, we focus here on the challenge of trust in an AWS. One type of human trust depends only on judgments about the predictability or reliability of the trustee, and so are suitable for all manner of artifacts. However, AWSs that are worthy of the descriptor “autonomous” will not exhibit the required strong predi…Read more
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4. Provisional PublicityIn Garrett Wallace Brown & Áron Telegdi-Csetri (eds.), Kant's Cosmopolitics: Contemporary Issues and Global Debates, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 51-69. 2019.
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53Artificial Intelligence: Power to the PeopleEthics and International Affairs 33 (2): 127-140. 2019.
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26Response to Pattison: Whose Responsibility to Protect?Journal of Military Ethics 8 (1): 79-85. 2009.James Pattison's argument for the assignment of a duty of humanitarian intervention is interesting and offers a new perspective in the humanitarian intervention debate. However, Pattison's argument suffers from three main problems, each increasingly serious: his definition of success is vague and raises questions about the content of a duty of humanitarian intervention; his consequentialist foundation raises problems of prospective and retrospective judgment; and his intentional omission of the …Read more
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250The Strategic Robot Problem: Lethal Autonomous Weapons in WarJournal of Military Ethics 13 (3): 211-227. 2014.The present debate over the creation and potential deployment of lethal autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’, is garnering more and more attention. Much of the argument revolves around whether such machines would be able to uphold the principle of noncombatant immunity. However, much of the present debate fails to take into consideration the practical realties of contemporary armed conflict, particularly generating military objectives and the adherence to a targeting process. This paper argues…Read more
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34This book provides an innovative contribution to the study of the Responsibility to Protect and Kantian political theory. The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine has been heralded as the new international security norm to ensure the protection of peoples against genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Yet, for all of the discussion, endorsements and reaffirmations of this new norm, R2P continues to come under fire for its failures, particularly, and most recently…Read more
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90Responsibility, liability, and lethal autonomous robotsIn Fritz Allhoff, Nicholas G. Evans & Adam Henschke (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Ethics and War: Just War Theory in the 21st Century, Routledge. pp. 352. 2013.
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Social and Political Philosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
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