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Title

Governing lethal behavior in autonomous robots / Ronald Arkin.

Author

Arkin, Ronald C., 1949-

Publication

Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009.

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Description

xx, 257 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Expounding on the results of the author's work with the US Army Research Office, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, and various defense industry contractors, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots explores how to produce an "artificial conscience" in a new class of robots, humane-oids, which are robots that can potentially perform more ethically than humans in the battlefield. The author examines the philosophical basis, motivation, theory, and design recommendations for the implementation of an ethical control and reasoning system in autonomous robot systems, taking into account the Laws of War and Rules of Engagement.

Subject

• 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

Note

• "A Chapman & Hall book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Trends toward lethality -- Human failings in the battlefield -- Related philosophical thought -- What people think : opinions on lethal autonomous systems -- Formalization for ethical control -- Specific issues for lethality : what to represent -- Representational choices : how to represent ethics in a lethal robot -- Architectural considerations for governing lethality -- Design options -- Example scenarios for the ethical use of force -- A prototype implementation.

ISBN

• 9781420085945 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1420085948 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009011782

OCLC

213318205

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library