"“We’ve been focusing on trying to define what an autonomous weapon is so it can be the basis for an international agreement,” explained Peter Asaro, Ph.D., an assistant professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School, as well as the co-founder and vice chair for theInternational Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC), and a spokesperson for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. I interviewed him about his work and the concept of, “meaningful human control” for autonomous weapons. Rather than simply decry the use of any autonomous technology for military applications, Asaro’s objective is to ban the lethal nature of unmanned systems. “Things like deciding what and when to kill, these are not simply problems you can write an algorithm to solve. They’re really quite complicated and require reasoning that can’t be automated.”"
- Date Published:04/12/2015
- Original Publication:Mashable