Dr. Asaro is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York City. He is the co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and has written on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. Dr. Asaro's research also examines agency and autonomy, liability and punishment, and privacy and surveillance as it applies to consumer robots, industrial automation, smart buildings, aerial drones and autonomous vehicles.
Peter Asaro
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Google Renounces AI Weapons; Will Still Work With Military
"The principles about surveillance were not specific enough, according to Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School who organized a letter from…
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Google Backtracks, Says Its AI Will Not Be Used for Weapons or Surveillance
"“While Google’s statement rejects building AI systems for information gathering and surveillance that violates internationally accepted norms, we are conc…
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Artificial intelligence debate flares at Google
"“We are calling on Google not to make weapons because Google has a special relationship with the public in virtue of the kind of personal data they are co…
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Google Staff AI Revolt Jeopardizes Pentagon Cloud Deals
""A lot of those cloud services are tied to the AI that they’re using," said Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School who organized…
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The Line Between Big Tech and Defense Work
"One of the letter’s organizers, Peter Asaro, an associate professor at The New School, says there are no plans for similar letter for Microsoft or Amazon,…
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Academics protest Google’s role in drone murder
"“It is clear that the Pentagon aims to build out Project Maven to armed drones, and its functionality does not need much adjustment to become a target rec…
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Google Employees Quit in Protest Over Military Artificial Intelligence Program
""The timeline of how quickly we could see those systems would be moved up dramatically if Google throws its weight into building the key components o…
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Unfiltered: ‘Time is running out’
"In this week’s episode of Yahoo News’ Unfiltered, we talk to New School professor Peter Asaro about the dangers of artificial intelligence technology and…
Google's march to the business of war must be stopped
Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country’s military dominance? Should it use its…
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
"More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Proj…
Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons, and soon
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN has just concluded a second round of meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva, und…
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The New School + #SXSW: Faculty Members Talk A.I. for Social Good at XPRIZE Futurecasting Workshop
"Speaking to a crowd of captivated futurists at the Speakeasy in Downtown Austin at #SXSW, Peter Asaro warned of a future in which “autonomous weapon syste…