Killer Robots.
The United States Army's Future Combat Systems Project, which aims to manufacture a ‘robot army’ to be ready for deployment by 2012, is only the latest and most dramatic example of military interest in the use of artificially intelligent systems in modern warfare. This paper considers the ethics of...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Applied Philosophy Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 62 - 78 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2007
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