Lethal autonomous weapons systems, revulsion, and respect
The potential for the use of artificial intelligence in developing lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has received a good deal of attention from ethicists. Lines of argument in favor of and against developing and deploying LAWS have already become hardened. In this paper, I examine one strateg...
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| description | The potential for the use of artificial intelligence in developing lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has received a good deal of attention from ethicists. Lines of argument in favor of and against developing and deploying LAWS have already become hardened. In this paper, I examine one strategy for skirting these familiar positions, namely to base an anti-LAWS argument not on claims that LAWS inevitably fail to respect human dignity, but on a different kind of respect, namely respect for public opinion and conventional attitudes (which Robert Sparrow claims are strongly anti-LAWS). My conclusion is that this sort of respect for conventional attitudes does provide some reason for actions and policies, but that it is actually a fairly weak form of respect, that is often override by more direct concerns about respect for humanity or dignity. By doing this, I explain the intuitive force of the claim that one should not disregard public attitudes, but also justify assigning a relatively weak role when other kinds of respect are involved. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dc3e29ecb42d4d3f80700dcc3f7aadf22022-12-22T02:36:40ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Big Data2624-909X2022-10-01510.3389/fdata.2022.991459991459Lethal autonomous weapons systems, revulsion, and respectRichard Dean0Richard Dean1United States Naval Academy, James B. Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership, Annapolis, MD, United StatesDepartment of Philosophy, California State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe potential for the use of artificial intelligence in developing lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has received a good deal of attention from ethicists. Lines of argument in favor of and against developing and deploying LAWS have already become hardened. In this paper, I examine one strategy for skirting these familiar positions, namely to base an anti-LAWS argument not on claims that LAWS inevitably fail to respect human dignity, but on a different kind of respect, namely respect for public opinion and conventional attitudes (which Robert Sparrow claims are strongly anti-LAWS). My conclusion is that this sort of respect for conventional attitudes does provide some reason for actions and policies, but that it is actually a fairly weak form of respect, that is often override by more direct concerns about respect for humanity or dignity. By doing this, I explain the intuitive force of the claim that one should not disregard public attitudes, but also justify assigning a relatively weak role when other kinds of respect are involved.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdata.2022.991459/fulllethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS)artificial intelligencemilitary ethicsrespectconventional attitudesrevulsion |
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| title | Lethal autonomous weapons systems, revulsion, and respect |
| title_full | Lethal autonomous weapons systems, revulsion, and respect |
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| title_short | Lethal autonomous weapons systems, revulsion, and respect |
| title_sort | lethal autonomous weapons systems revulsion and respect |
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| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fdata.2022.991459/full |
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