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"The American philosopher Peter Asaro is one of the leaders of the global resistance against fighting robots. "Unlike humans, they are not able to make moral and legal considerations."
Who makes decisions about life and death, must understand very well what he is doing. That is a moral requirement that a robot can never meet, "warns the American art philosopher Peter Asaro, affiliated with The New School in New York and the Centre for Ethics and Technology of the University of Twente. Still forms the impending development of autonomous weapons in wars independently decide to disable a target according to him, a real danger. For limited the impact of computers until recently to what he calls the 'information world', nowadays they play an increasingly important role in the physical world: they mow our grass, vacuuming the house, soon drive our cars and may soon kill people too .According to Asaro a doomsday scenario that he wants to avoid with scientists and NGOs worldwide. Since his first paper in 2005 on the ethics of robotics are the technical, legal, social and ethical aspects of military robotics his main field of research. Asaro was in April a few days in the Netherlands to warn include MPs of the dangers of killer robots ."