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There is much debate on the ethics of artificial intelligence machines that are designed to kill. But who’s responsible when a non-lethal AI system causes damage, harm or even death?
Some have argued we should not ban but embrace offensive autonomous weapons, or ‘killer robots’. But the arguments against a ban are weak.
Why obsess about killer robots of the future, when all the parts are already here, and already in use?
The thousands of people who signed an open letter calling for a ban on autonomous killer weapons and robots are misguided. We already have such killing machines and we should embrace them.
We need to ban offensive autonomous weapons - or ‘killer robots’ - before a new arms race to produce them begins.
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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PhD in machine ethics, University of Canterbury
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark
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Professor, Director of the Centre for Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
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Lecturer on Law and Associate Director of Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School, Harvard University
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Honorary Associate Professor, UNSW
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Reader, Politics and International Relations Group, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor, School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Global Arts and Politics, University of Southampton
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The University of Queensland
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Researcher in Artificial Intelligence Regulation, Australian National University