From the two Journals I read the professionals are greatly concerned about the “Ethics” involved with using robots on the battlefield. The concern is robots do not have the sense of reasoning that humans do. Robots do not value human life and they are prepared to kill anything it is told to. The human can tell right from wrong and determine if the need for lethal force is necessary. Their point is even though soldiers are currently using robots for tasks, the human is still the driving force. They fear with using robots completely there is a disconnect between the threat of danger that comes along with war. This may mean that countries will be just creating these death machines and wipe out others because they have no human lives at stake. The use of force and decision making is already being altered with the use of drones. The professionals also have this same concern with the use of robots in elderly care.
Colln Allen, Wendell Wallach, David Axe, William O. Waddell, Alex Roland
The Wilson Quarterly (1976-)
Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring, 2009), pp. 6-7, 9
Vol. 33, No. 2 (Spring, 2009), pp. 6-7, 9
Published by: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40262500
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Hi Chris, This is a really interesting example of why professional and public views on any given subject collide with each other as frequently as they complement each other. I followed your summary of the public view just fine, and then was surprised in reading about the professionals' interests because the ethical implications are so much more complicated than what I, as a member of the public, first considered. I look forward to reading more.
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