Lethal Autonomous Weapons

Jai Galliott is Director of the Values in Defence & Security Technology Group at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Non-Residential Fellow at the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy, West Point and Visiting Fellow in The Centre for Technology and Global Affairs at the University of Oxford. Dr Galliott has developed a reputation as one of the foremost experts on the socio-ethical implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and is regarded as an internationally respected scholar on the ethical, legal and strategic issues associated with the employment of emerging technologies, including cyber systems, autonomous vehicles and soldier augmentationDuncan MacIntosh is a Professor of Philosophy and Department Chair at Dalhousie University. Professor MacIntosh works in metaethics, decision and action theory, metaphysics, philosophy of language, epistemology, and philosophy of science. He has written on desire-based theories of rationality, the relationship betweenrationality and time, the reducibility of morality to rationality, modeling morality and rationality with the tools of action and game theory, scientific realism, and a number of other topics. Jens David Ohlin is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Cornell Law School. He specializes in international law and criminal law. He specifically focuses on the laws of war with special emphasis on the effects of new technology on the waging of warfare, including unmanned drones in the strategy of targeted killings, cyber-warfare, and the role of non-state actors in armed conflicts. He authored The Assault on International Law (2015).

• IntroductionList of Contributors The Case for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Chapter One: Fire and Forget: A Moral Defense of the Use of Autonomous Weapons Systems in War and PeaceDuncan MacIntoshChapter Two: The Robot Dogs of WarDeane-Peter BakerChapter Three: Understanding AI & Autonomy: Problematizing the Meaningful Human Control Argument Against Killer RobotsTim McFarland & Jai GalliottChapter Four: The Humanitarian Imperative For Minimally-Just AI In WeaponsJason Scholz and Jai Galliott Humans, Robots & Values Chapter Five: Programming Precision? Requiring Robust Transparency for AWSSteven J. Barela & Avery PlawChapter Six: May Machines Take Lives to Save Lives? Human Perceptions of Autonomous Robots (with the Capacity to Kill)Matthias Scheutz and Bertram F. MalleChapter Seven: The Better Instincts of Humanity: Humanitarian Arguments in Defense of International Arms Control Natalia Jevglevskaja and Rain LiivojaChapter Eight: Toward a Positive Statement of Ethical Principles for Military AIJai GalliottChapter Nine: Empirical Data on Attitudes Towards Autonomous SystemsJai Galliott, Bianca Baggiarini, Sean Rupka The Rationality of Automaticity Chapter Ten: The Automation of Authority: Discrepancies with Jus Ad Bellum PrinciplesDonovan PhillipsChapter Eleven: Autonomous Weapons and the Future of Armed Conflict Alex Leveringhaus Chapter Twelve: Autonomous Weapons and Reactive AttitudesJens David OhlinChapter Thirteen: Blind brains and moral machines: neuroscience and autonomous weapon systemsNicholas G. Evans Developing Meaningful Human Control Chapter Fourteen: Enforced Transparency: A Solution to Autonomous Weapons as Potentially Uncontrollable Weapons Similar to BioweaponsArmin KrishnanChapter 15: Normative Epistemology for Lethal Autonomous Weapons SystemsKate DevittChapter Sixteen: Proposing a regional normative framework for limiting the potential for unintentional or escalatory engagements with increasingly autonomous weapon systems.Austin Wyatt and Jai GalliottChapter Seventeen: The Human Role in Autonomous Weapon Design and DeploymentM.L. Cummings