[LINK] Killer robots and military ethics

[Tom Worthington]

Professor Christian Enemark will speak on "Killer robots: military 
ethics and post-human war" at the Australian National University in 
Canberra, 5:30pm 8 August 2013:

"In April this year the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary 
or Arbitrary Executions recommended a moratorium on the development of 
lethal autonomous weapon systems (so-called ‘killer robots’). In some 
countries there is strong technological and military momentum towards 
the use of such systems, partly because the physical and mental 
frailties of human users of force are increasingly seen as posing 
operational risks and impediments.  ... Christian Enemark addresses the 
critical issue of whether robotics technology can overcome ethical 
shortcomings in the use of force while preserving the moral influence of 
human responsibility."

RSVP: 
http://asiapacific.anu.edu.au/cap-events/2013-08-08/killer-robots-military-ethics-and-post-human-war


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