We must oppose lethal autonomous weapons systems

Joining forces to develop weapons against TB: together we must.

New approaches are needed to tackle the current and impending disaster of TB. First, its lethal combination with HIV will continue unless the detection and treatment of both infections improve simultaneously. The double impact of TB and HIV is keeping large numbers of people trapped in poverty and disease which reinforce each other. This phenomenon is not limited to sub-Saharan Africa and other...

Lest we forget: why the use of chemical weapons must not go unchallenged.

Data Fusion of FLIR and LADAR in Autonomous Weapons Systems

We use data fusion in our automatic target recognition (ATR) system to identify and track airbourne objects. The fusion process allows for a much more robust conclusion to be drawn from what may well be incomplete data. The method we use for the fusion process is twofold. The Transferable belief model (TBM), which is derived from Dempster Shafer Theory (DST) is used for matching type and Kalman...

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...