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There is much debate on the ethics of artificial intelligence machines that are designed to kill. But who’s responsible when a non-lethal AI system causes damage, harm or even death?
Some have argued we should not ban but embrace offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’. But the arguments against a ban are weak.
Why obsess about killer robots of the future, when all the parts are already here, and already in use?
The thousands of people who signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous killer weapons and robots are misguided. We already have such killing machines and we should embrace them.
We need to ban offensive autonomous weapons - or ‘killer robots’ - before a new arms race to produce them begins.
Top contributors
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
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Lecturer on Law and Associate Director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Human Factors, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Australian National University
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Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics, University of Southampton
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
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Adjunct Research Fellow of The Cairns Institute, James Cook University
