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1. Introduction -- 2. The rise of unmanned systems -- 3. Justifications for the employment of unmanned systems -- 4. Just unmanned warfare : old rules for new wars? -- 5. Unmanned warfare : technological and operational dimensions -- 6. Unmanned warfare : the moral costs of changing mindsets -- 7. The asymmetry objection -- 8. Unmanned systems and war's end : prospects for lasting peace -- 9. The responsibility gap -- 10. Conclusion.

Not since man set foot on the moon over four decades ago has there been such passion and excitement about space exploration. This enthusiasm and eagerness has been spurred on by the fact that for the first time since the very beginning of the space age, space travel is no longer limited to an elite group of highly trained and well-disciplined military officers and test pilots. Instead, we must understand that the possibility of commercial space travel is already on our horizon and that it comes with a number of significant practical and moral challenges. Our level of scientific development an.

What's wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns? Are echo chambers a matter of genuine concern? How does data collection impact on trust in society? As decision-making becomes increasingly automated, how can decision-makers be held to account? This collection consider potential solutions to these challenges.

What's wrong with targeted advertising in political campaigns? Are echo chambers a matter of genuine concern? How does data collection impact on trust in society? As decision-making becomes increasingly automated, how can decision-makers be held to account? This collection consider potential solutions to these challenges.

This volume examines the ethical issues generated by recent developments in intelligence collection and offers a comprehensive analysis of the key legal, moral and social questions thereby raised. Intelligence officers, whether gatherers, analysts or some combination thereof, are operating in a sea of social, political, scientific and technological change. This book examines the new challenges faced by the intelligence community as a result of these changes. It looks not only at how governments employ spies as a tool of state and how the ultimate outcomes are judged by their societies, but also at the mind-set of the spy. In so doing, this volume casts a rare light on an often ignored dimension of spying: the essential role of truth and how it is defined in an intelligence context. This book offers some insights into the workings of the intelligence community and aims to provide the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the relevant moral, legal and social questions, with a view toward developing policy that may influence real-world decision making. The contributors analyse the ethics of spying across a broad canvas - historical, philosophical, moral and cultural - with chapters covering interrogation and torture, intelligence's relation to war, remote killing, cyber surveillance, responsibility and governance. In the wake of the phenomena of WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden revelations, the intelligence community has entered an unprecedented period of broad public scrutiny and scepticism, making this volume a timely contribution.

The question of whether new rules or regulations are required to govern, restrict, or even prohibit the use of autonomous weapon systems has been the subject of debate for the better part of a decade. Despite the claims of advocacy groups, the way ahead remains unclear since the international community has yet to agree on a specific definition of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and the great powers have largely refused to support an effective ban. In this vacuum, the public has been presented with a heavily one-sided view of Killer Robots. This volume presents a more nuanced approach to autonomous weapon systems that recognizes the need to progress beyond a discourse framed by the Terminator and HAL 9000. Re-shaping the discussion around this emerging military innovation requires a new line of thought and a willingness to challenge the orthodoxy. Lethal Autonomous Weapons focuses on exploring the moral and legal issues associated with the design, development and deployment of lethal autonomous weapons. In this volume, we bring together some of the most prominent academics and academic-practitioners in the lethal autonomous weapons space and seek to return some balance to the debate. As part of this effort, we recognize that society needs to invest in hard conversations that tackle the ethics, morality, and law of these new digital technologies and understand the human role in their creation and operation.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Preface -- Part I Boundaries -- 1 On the Significance of Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction -- 2 Making Sense of Empathy with Sociable Robots: A New Look at the "Imaginative Perception of Emotion" -- 3 Robots and the Limits of Morality -- 4 What's Love Got to Do with It? Robots, Sexuality, and the Arts of Being Human -- Part II Potential -- 5 Ethics Boards for Research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: Is it Too Soon to Act? -- 6 Technological Dangers and the Potential of Human-Robot Interaction: A Philosophical Investigation of Fundamental Epistemological Mechanisms of Discrimination -- 7 The Uncanny Valley: A Working Hypothesis -- 8 Staging Lies: Performativity in the Human-Robot Theatre play I, Worker -- Part III Challenges -- 9 Robots, Humans, and the Borders of the Social World -- 10 The Diffuse Intelligent Other: An Ontology of Nonlocalizable Robots as Moral and Legal Actors -- 11 Gendered by Design: Gender Codes in Social Robotics -- 12 Persuasive Robotic Technologies and the Freedom of Choice and Action.

Provides a new analysis for bringing the rules of war into alignment with contemporary means of warfareThese essays explore the overarching phenomenon of how force short of war is being used in modern conflict, and how it impacts just war theory. They show that we need to bring the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital means of conducting kinetic warfare through the force short of war paradigm.The use of force short of war is now commonplace, in large part owing to casualty averseness and the explosion of emerging technologies, most notably drones, autonomous robotics and cyberwarfare. It often involves the selective or limited use of military force to achieve political objectives and assumes many forms. These include targeted killing, assassination, special-forces raids, limited duration bombing campaigns or missile strikes, and 'low intensity' counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations.Key FeaturesInvestigates innovative normative methods for aligning modern conflict with contemporary ethical and legal expectationsPresents a new way to understand and potentially reconcile a centuries-old theoretical dispute between classical and revisionist accounts of just warProvides a means of better governing the use of emerging military technologies that have plagued governments in recent timesOpens new avenues for thinking about the ethics of robotic, cyber and other novel military technologies in the context of military and political decision-makingContributorsEamon Aloyo, Lecturer at Leiden University and Senior Researcher at The Hague Institute of Global Justice.Christian Braun, Research Fellow in Philosophy at Durham Univeristy.Megan Braun, a Rhodes Scholar pursuing International Relations at Oxford University.Daniel Brunstetter, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Irvine.Helen Frowe, Professor of Practical Philosophy and Director of the Stockholm Centre for the Ethics of War and Peace. Cassitie Galliott, PhD candidate at the Monash University.Jai Galliott, Research Group Leader – Values in Defence & Security Technology at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy and Visiting Fellow at Centre for Technology and Global Affairs in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University.James Gillcrist, Researcher in the Department of Philosophy at The University of Kansas.Shawn Kaplan, Associate Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Adelphi University.Christopher Ketcham, Research Fellow in the Values in Defence & Security Technology Group at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy.John Lango, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York.Nick Lloyd, Reader in Military and Imperial History at Kings College, London.Danielle Lupton, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Colgate University.Seumas Miller, Professorial Research Fellow at Charles Sturt University and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology, The Hague.Valerie Morkevicius, Associate Professor of Political Science at Colgate University