Autonomous weapons systems law, ethics, policy

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Autonomous weapons systems : living a dignified life and dying a dignified death / Christof Heyns -- Staying in the loop : human supervisory control of weapons / Noel Sharkety -- The autonomy of technological systems and respondibilities for their use / Giovanni Sartor and Andrea Omicini -- Human-machine autonomies / Lucy Suchman and Jutta Weber -- Are autonomous weapons systems a threat to human dignity? / Dieter Birnbacher -- On banning autonomous weapons systems : from deontological to wide consequentialist reasons / Guglielmo Tamburrini -- Judgment, liability and the riskks of riskless warfare / Pablo Kalmanovitz -- Autonomous weapons systems and transparency : towards an international dialogue / Sarah Knuckey -- A human touch : autonomous weapons, DoD Directive 3000.09 and the interpretation of 'appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force' / Dan Saxon -- Autonomous weapons systems : managing the inevitability of 'taking the man out of the loop' / Geoffrey S. Corn -- The obligation to exercise discretion i warfare : why autonomous weapons systems are unlawful / Eliav Lieblich and Eyal Benvenisti -- Autonomy and uncertainty : increasingly autonomous weapons systems and the international legal regulation of risk / Nehal Bhuta and Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos -- Autonomous weapons systems : new frameworks for individual responsibility / Neha Jain -- Refining responsibility : differentiating two types of responsibility issues raided by autonomous weapons systems / Hin-Yan Liu -- Present futures : concluding reflections and open questions on autonomous weapons systems / Nehal Bhuta, Susanne Beck and Robin Geib.

"The intense and polemical debate over the legality and morality of weapons systems to which human cognitive functions are delegated (up to and including the capacity to select targets and release weapons without further human intervention) addresses a phenomena which does not yet exist but which is widely claimed to be emergent. This groundbreaking collection combines contributions from roboticists, legal scholars, philosophers and sociologists of science in order to recast the debate in a manner that clarifies key areas and articulates questions for future research. The contributors develop insights with direct policy relevance, including who bears responsibility for autonomous weapons systems, whether they would violate fundamental ethical and legal norms, and how to regulate their development. It is essential reading for those concerned about this emerging phenomenon and its consequences for the future of humanity"--

"The intense and polemical debate over the legality and morality of weapons systems to which human cognitive functions are delegated (up to and including the capacity to select targets and release weapons without further human intervention) addresses a phenomena which does not yet exist but which is widely claimed to be emergent. This ground-breaking collection combines contributions from roboticists, legal scholars, philosophers and sociologists of science in order to recast the debate in a manner that clarifies key areas and articulates questions for future research. The contributors develop insights with direct policy relevance, including who bears responsibility for autonomous weapons systems, whether they would violate fundamental ethical and legal norms, and how to regulate their development. It is essential reading for those concerned about this emerging phenomenon and its consequences for the future of humanity. Nehal Bhuta is Professor of Public International Law at the European University Institute, Florence, and Co-Director of the EUI's Academy of European Law"--