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Military robots should not look like a humans
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Kaja Kowalczewska
Ethics and Information Technology, Volume: 25, Issue: 3
Swansea University Author:
Kaja Kowalczewska
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DOI (Published version): 10.1007/s10676-023-09718-6
Abstract
Using robots in the military contexts is problematic at many levels. There are social, legal, and ethical issues that should be discussed first before their wider deployment. In this paper, we focus on an additional problem: their human likeness. We claim that military robots should not look like hu...
| Published in: | Ethics and Information Technology |
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| ISSN: | 1388-1957 1572-8439 |
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC
2023
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70676 |
| Abstract: |
Using robots in the military contexts is problematic at many levels. There are social, legal, and ethical issues that should be discussed first before their wider deployment. In this paper, we focus on an additional problem: their human likeness. We claim that military robots should not look like humans. That design choice may bring additional risks that endanger human lives and by that contradicts the very justification for deploying robots at war, which is decreasing human deaths and injuries. We discuss two threats—epistemological and patient. Epistemological one is connected with the risk of mistaking robots for humans due to the limited ways of getting information about the external world, which may be amplified by the rush and need to fight with robots in distance. The patient threat is related to the developing attachment to robots, that in military contexts may cause additional deaths by the hesitance to sacrifice robots in order to save humans in peril or risking human life to save robots. |
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| Keywords: |
Military robots; Design; Human–robot interactions; Antophomorpism |
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Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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3 |