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This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention by a human operator. Critics of these weapons claim that ‘taking the human out-of-the-loop’ represents a further step towards the de-humanisation of warfare, while advocates of this type of technology contend that the power of machine autonomy can potentially be harnessed in order to prevent war crimes. This book provides a thorough and critical assessment of these two positions. Written by a political philosopher at the forefront of the autonomous weapons debate, the book clearly assesses the ethical and legal ramifications of autonomous weapons, and presents a novel ethical argument against fully autonomous weapons.
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“Alex Leveringhaus’ book is therefore timely. … I found Ethics and Autonomous Weapons an interesting and stimulating book, and I have no hesitation in recommending it. And I applaud anyone who writes about weapons research and related matters.” (John Forge, Metascience, June, 2017)
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Alex Leveringhaus is a Research Associate at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford. He is also a James Martin Fellow at the Oxford Martin School. Prior to these positions, he held a joint appointment as a Post-doctoral Research Fellow at ELAC and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology, Delft University of Technology.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics and Autonomous Weapons
Authors: Alex Leveringhaus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52361-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot London
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-52360-0Published: 06 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-52361-7Published: 18 May 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 131
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, Conflict Studies, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict