{"id":826,"date":"2007-12-02T16:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/rpe\/2007\/12\/02\/robots-ai-ethics-and-military-technology"},"modified":"2007-12-02T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-02T16:53:00","slug":"robots-ai-ethics-and-military-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/2007\/12\/02\/robots-ai-ethics-and-military-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Robots, AI, Ethics and Military Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedforcesjournal.com\/xml\/2007\/11\/images\/AFJ_COVER_NOVEMBER07.JPG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"277\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.armedforcesjournal.com\/xml\/2007\/11\/images\/AFJ_COVER_NOVEMBER07.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div>Now, we rarely post articles (or links to) from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedforcesjournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">US Armed Forces Journal<\/a> on this blog, but I was sent the link to an interesting one, entitled: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armedforcesjournal.com\/2007\/11\/2802366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fast Forward to the Robot Dilemma<\/a>. This talks about the ethical issues involved in placing AI (Artifical Intelligence) systems in control of military technology&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He (Major David Bigelow) concludes: <em>It is unethical to create a fully autonomous military robot endowed with the ability to make independent decisions unless it is designed to screen its decisions through a sound moral framework.<\/em><br \/><em><\/em><br \/>Which sound moral framework, I wonder, would that be though? I thought RPE blog readers may find his piece of interest&#8230;.<br \/>Dave<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, we rarely post articles (or links to) from the US Armed Forces Journal on this blog, but I was sent the link to an interesting one, entitled: Fast Forward [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,167,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-military","category-technology"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/rpe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}