International governance of autonomous military robots

Gary Marchant; Braden Allenby; Ronald C. Arkin; Jason Borenstein; Lyn M. Gaudet; Orde Kittrie; Patrick Lin; George R. Lucas; Richard O’Meara; Jared Silberman

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-9707-1_102

International governance of autonomous military robots

Gary Marchant, Braden Allenby, Ronald C. Arkin, Jason Borenstein, Lyn M. Gaudet, Orde Kittrie, Patrick Lin, George R. Lucas, Richard O’Meara, Jared Silberman

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This article seeks to provide a background of some of the principal legal issues and initiate a much-needed legal and ethical dialogue related to the use of lethal autonomous robotic technologies in the military context. Following a brief introduction, Sect.120.2 of this article provides a brief history and illustrations of autonomous robots in the military, including the pending development of LARs. Section 120.3 sets forth a number of important ethical and policy considerations regarding the use of robots in military endeavors. Section 120.4 reviews the current patchwork of guidelines and policies that apply to the use of military robots. Section 120.5 considers the role that international treaties and agreements might play in the governance of LARs, while Sect. 120.6 investigates the potential role of soft law governance mechanisms such as codes of conduct.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Pages	2879-2910
Number of pages	32
ISBN (Electronic)	9789048197071
ISBN (Print)	2014944662, 9789048197064
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9707-1_102
State	Published - Jan 1 2015

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