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Killer Robots Targeting Civilians?

The Dangers of Drones

By IGI Global on Aug 6, 2013
Contributed by Marisa Weachter, Marketing Assistant

Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles Tensions between the United States and Europe continue to heighten as more information on cyber warfare and security issues continue to surface. According to a recent CNN Report, the European Union seems to be less threatened by the claims of spying by the United States, instead focusing their attention on the threat of drone attacks.

Drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS), are aircrafts either controlled remotely from the ground or pre-programmed for planned missions. Drones are used for surveillance or reconnaissance. In the past few years, the US has used them to target suspected terrorists. The most recent drone sighting was in Pakistan, where 17 people were killed in a drone attack. An interesting comparison is addressed in the IGI Global chapter, “Armchair Warfare ‘on Terrorism’: On Robots, Targeted Assassinations and Strategic Violations of International Humanitarian Law.”

Written by research professional Jutta Weber of the University of Uppsala, Sweden, this chapter investigates the dramatic advancements of military in the 21st century. Professor Weber offers an insightful research prospective to analyze recent developments in military weapons, and the dangers they present. The research exhibited here explores the ethical relation between contemporary warfare and the killing of civilians with the use of high-tech weapons such as combat robots.

“The deployment of new robotic technologies for aerial attacks intensified massively in the last years (Cordesman, 2008; Fischer, 2008; Singer, 2009; Weber, 2009) and the number of killed civilians is rising (UN News Center 2009). Especially interesting is also the deployment of US drones in Pakistan, where not only the military but also the C.I.A. operates uninhabited combat aerial vehicles: it represents a radically new and geographically unbounded use of state-sanctioned lethal force.”

Featured in the book, Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, this publication presents a conversation between established experts and new researchers in the field of philosophy and computer science analyzing human and non-human relationships with the environment. For more information on cognitive informatics and intelligent technologies around the world, also view the IGI Global Topic Collection Cognitive Informatics, a bundle of 17 fundamental reference sources that examines ground-breaking research in the emerging and multidisciplinary field of cognitive informatics.
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