[Robotgroup] Article: "Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots"

[Andre Lamothe]

Fair enough. And yes, "friends" is a form of torture to me as well :)

Andre'



----- Original Message ----- 
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Sounds like you are in need more of a vacation than me! watching an
episode of friends is not my idea of taking a break. You don't have to
get personal either, or play semantic games, after all we are adults
aren't we?...

I never asked you if you were serious, I only said "I hope you are being
sarcastic"! hmm didn't get it :(  hey I get the sarcastic humor on this
board, I know Vern and am used to his humor, I see now it is rubbing off
on others. loosen up on the panties... golly geez --hint more humor--

everything is cool about terminators running killing everyone... what
planet are you on?

J

Andre Lamothe wrote:
> Isn't that obvious? Its a joke, lighten up. Go have a snapple and watch an
> episode of "Friends". When a person is saying "wouldn't it be fun if 
> living
> machines killed my friends, family, and exterminated everyone on the 
> planet"
> and you think they are serious, maybe its time you take a vacation?
>
> So my counter question... are you serious about asking me if I am serious?
>
> Hint: -- that is more humor --  ;)
>
> Andre'
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <john at cozmicfunk.com>
> To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 4:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Article: "Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots"
>
>
> I hope you are being sarcastic, I see nothing cool about terminators
> running killing everyone.
> JPF
>
> Andre Lamothe wrote:
>
>> Pretty cool, the foundations of skynet are now forming :)
>>
>> Andre'
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Vern Graner" <vern at txis.com>
>> To: "'The Robot Group Mailing List'" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 3:29 PM
>> Subject: [Robotgroup] Article: "Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots"
>>
>>
>> >From this link:
>>
>> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/ethics_of_auton.html
>>
>> Comes this article:
>>
>> --------------------------- CLIP ----------------------------
>> January 28, 2008
>> Ethics of Autonomous Military Robots
>>
>> Ronald C. Arkin, "Governing Lethal Behavior: Embedding Ethics in a
>> Hybrid Deliberative/Reactive Robot Architecture," Technical Report
>> GIT-GVU-07011. Fascinating (and long: 117-page) paper on ethical
>> implications of robots in war.
>>
>> Summary, Conclusions, and Future Work
>>
>> This report has provided the motivation, philosophy, formalisms,
>> representational requirements, architectural design criteria,
>> recommendations, and test scenarios to design and construct an
>> autonomous robotic system architecture capable of the ethical use of
>> lethal force. These first steps toward that goal are very preliminary
>> and subject to major revision, but at the very least they can be viewed
>> as the beginnings of an ethical robotic warfighter. The primary goal
>> remains to enforce the International Laws of War in the battlefield in a
>> manner that is believed achievable, by creating a class of robots that
>> not only conform to International Law but outperform human soldiers in
>> their ethical capacity.
>>
>> It is too early to tell whether this venture will be successful. There
>> are daunting problems remaining:
>>
>> * The transformation of International Protocols and battlefield ethics
>> into machine usable representations and real-time reasoning capabilities
>> for bounded morality using modal logics.
>>
>> * Mechanisms to ensure that the design of intelligent behaviors only
>> provide responses within rigorously defined ethical boundaries.
>>
>> * The creation of techniques to permit the adaptation of an ethical
>> constraint set and underlying behavioral control parameters that will
>> ensure moral performance, should those norms be violated in any way,
>> involving reflective and affective processing.
>>
>> * A means to make responsibility assignment clear and explicit for all
>> concerned parties regarding the deployment of a machine with a lethal
>> potential on its mission.
>>
>> Over the next two years, this architecture will be slowly fleshed out in
>> the context of the specific test scenarios outlined in this article.
>> Hopefully the goals of this effort, will fuel other scientists’ interest
>> to assist in ensuring that the machines that we as roboticists create
>> fit within international and societal expectations and requirements.
>>
>> My personal hope would be that they will never be needed in the present
>> or the future. But mankind’s tendency toward war seems overwhelming and
>> inevitable. At the very least, if we can reduce civilian casualties
>> according to what the Geneva Conventions have promoted and the Just War
>> tradition subscribes to, the result will have been a humanitarian
>> effort, even while staring directly at the face of war.
>> -------------------------- /CLIP ----------------------------
>>
>> PDF referenced can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ai/robot-lab/online-publications/formalizationv35.pdf
>>
>> in case the above is broken:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2g69vj
>>
>> Vern
>>
>>
>>
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