Robots fighting wars could be blamed for mistakes on the battlefield
Monday, April 23, 2012 - 12:30
in Mathematics & Economics
As militaries develop autonomous robotic warriors to replace humans on the battlefield, new ethical questions emerge. If a robot in combat has a hardware malfunction or programming glitch that causes it to kill civilians, do we blame the robot, or the humans who created and deployed it?
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