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Who do we blame when a robot threatens to kill people?
"“Information by itself can commit a crime now,” Calo said by phone. I asked Calo if he thought any humans should take the fall for van der Goot’s bot, if…
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We Can Now Build Autonomous Killing Machines. And That’s a Very, Very Bad Idea
"Peter Asaro has spent the past few years lobbying the international community for a ban on killer robots as the founder of the International Committee for…
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Death by Robot
"A robot’s lack of emotion is precisely what makes many people uncomfortable with the idea of trying to give it human characteristics. Death by robot is an…
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This Military Robotics Company Vows To Never Make A Killer Robot
"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, notes that companies like Google are thinking about the issue of ethics for…
Building Moral Robots, With Whose Morals?
Listen to CIS Affiliate Scholar Peter Asaro on NPR: http://capeandislands.org/post/building-moral-robots-whose-morals…
Killer Robots + Ancient Rules of War = Trouble
Listen to the full piece at New Tech City. A version of this story won the German Prize for Innovation Journalism. It aired on Deutschlandfunk by Thomas Reintj…
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Killer Robots Could Be More Humane than Humans
""I think it is quite likely that these systems will behave in unpredictable ways, especially as they grow increasingly complex and are used in increa…
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Keep ‘Killer Robots’ off the Battlefield, Canada Urged
"Autonomous weapons don’t actually exist yet, but with the rapid advancements being made in robotics, there are troubling signs, said Peter Asaro, co-found…
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Campaign to Stop Killer Robots Calls For Canada To Support Ban On Fully Autonomous Weapons
"“Allowing machines to determine who should live or die in a conflict is an issue that concerns all states. The United States has articulated its policy on…
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Killer Robots: Natural Evolution, or Abomination?
"Peter Asaro, however, is not impressed with this domino theory of agency. A philosopher of science at The New School, in New York, and co-founder of ICRAC…
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Killer Robots: Warfare's Friend or Foe?
Peter Asaro, the director of graduate programs at The New School for Public Engagement’s School of Media Studies, is a killer robot expert, and an active member…
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Meet the Man Behind the Push to Ban Killer Robots
"To bring clearer into focus the backdrop of killer robots and the threat they pose, I talked to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the International Committee for…