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‘I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That’: Should killer Robots Be Allowed To Disobey Orders?

It is often said that autonomous weapons could help minimize the needless horrors of war. Their vision algorithms could be better than humans at distinguishing a schoolhouse from a weapons depot. They won’t be swayed by the furies that lead mortal souls to commit atrocities; they won’t massacre or pillage. Some ethicists have long argued that robots could even be hardwired to follow the laws of war with mathematical consistency.

This article was written by Arthur Holland Michel and originally published by The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists

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