The Soldier’s Share: Considering Narrow Responsibility for Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Autonomous Weapons and Human Responsibilities

Although remote-controlled robots flying over the Middle East and Central Asia now dominate reports on new military technologies, robots that are capable of detecting, identifying, and killing enemies on their own are quietly but steadily movingfrom the theoretical to the practical. The enormous difficulty in assigning responsibilities to humans and states for the actions ofthese machines grows...

Logical Limitations to Machine Ethics with Consequences to Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Lethal Autonomous Weapons promise to revolutionize warfare — and raise a multitude of ethical and legal questions. It has thus been suggested to program values and principles of conduct (such as the Geneva Conventions) into the machines’ control, thereby rendering them both physically and morally superior to human combatants. We employ mathematical logic and theoretical computer science to expl...

Tackling the "Gremlins Paradox" : Autonomous Hot Swap Healing Protocol for Chronic Performance Problem Aversion in On-board Mission Critical Systems for Lethal Autonomous Weapons

After careful reading of Kavulya [2013], [2] it was the informed view of this researcher, that the methods described in the Doctoral Dissertation could very easily resolve Chronic Performance Problems(CPPs) at Command Centers related to Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems. It is however not possible to use the same methods to resolve Chronic Performance Problems occurring in On-board Mission Criti...

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Non-Lethal Weapons: Striking Experiences in a Non-Cooperative Environment

In missions to stabilize conflicts around the world, the military forces increasingly find themselves operating amongst the people. The emerging need in military interventions to prevent casualties translated into a range of value driven military technological developments, such as non-lethal weapons (NLW). NLWs can be characterized by a certain technological and operational design ’window’ of ...