[LINK] Killer robots and military ethics

[Craig Sanders]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 04:57:15PM +1000, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
> I'll ask my usual question when it comes to autonomous systems:
> 
> Who is responsible for its actions?
> 
> If a robot "takes out" a village of innocent civilians, who pays the 
> price? Who gets charged with crimes against humanity? etc, etc.

the answer is obvious: responsibility rests with whoever gave the order
to deploy the hardware. 

possibly also whoever signed off on the code's QA testing to say that it
was fit and safe for purpose.

and possibly also, whoever wrote the design specs.


hah! in reality, the blame will be booted downstairs to the lowest
programmer.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>