Thou Shall Not Kill: The Ethics of AI in Contemporary Warfare

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Author(s): Evangelos Ioannis Koumparoudis (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Copyright: 2024
Pages: 15
Source title: Dealing With Regional Conflicts of Global Importance
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Piotr Pietrzak (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-9467-7.ch015

Keywords: Ethics and Social Responsibility / Information Science Reference / Political Science / Social Sciences & Humanities

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This chapter aims in the presentation of the evolution of AI and robotic technologies with emphasis on those for military use and the main strategic agendas of various superpowers like USA, China, and Russia, as well as peripheral powers. The authors also refer to the uses of such technologies in the battlefield. The chapter also reveals the ethical dimensions of the current military AI technologies. It starts with the Mark Coeckelberg paper, to emphasize his call for a new approach to technoethics. Then, the authors will strive towards the ethical theory Neil C. Rowe, and his propositions for ethical improvement of algorithms. Finally, the authors pose the notions of electronic personhood proposed by Avila Negri, also touching upon the fact the legal debate tends to face an anthropomorphic fallacy. To conclude, Thou Shall Not Kill, the highest ‘'Levinasian Imperative'' closes the gap of the anthropomorphic fallacy, so our relationship with the killer machines be viewed as asymmetric, non-anthropomorphic, and non-zoomorphic.

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