Military Ethics And Emerging Technologies

Author : Timothy J. Demy,George R. Lucas Jr.,Bradley J. Strawser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317661658

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Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies by Timothy J. Demy,George R. Lucas Jr.,Bradley J. Strawser Pdf

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use. Although the nature and politics of war never change, the weapons and technologies used in war do change and are always undergoing development. Because of that, the arsenal of weapons for twenty-first century conflict is different from previous centuries. Weapons in today’s world include an array of instruments of war that include, robotics, cyber war capabilities, human performance enhancement for warriors, and the proliferation of an entire spectrum of unmanned weapons systems and platforms. Tactical weapons now have the potential of strategic results and have changed the understanding of the battle space creating ethical, legal, and political issues unknown in the pre-9/11 world. What do these technologies mean for things such as contemporary international relations, the just-war tradition, and civil-military relations? Directed at readers in the academic, scientific, military, and public policy communities, this volume offers current thought on ethics and emerging technologies from internationally-recognized scholars addressing the full spectrum of issues in present warfare technology. It includes current and ongoing topics of multi-discipline and international interest, such as ethics, law, international relations, war studies, public policy, science and technology. This book was originally published in various issues and volumes of the Journal of Military Ethics.

Author : Bernhard Koch,Richard Schoonhoven
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789004507951

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Emerging Military Technologies by Bernhard Koch,Richard Schoonhoven Pdf

In this volume, internationally renowned researchers attempt to address the fundamental and applied ethical and legal problems posed by emerging military technologies and present their insights.

Author : Braden R. Allenby
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351894821

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The Applied Ethics of Emerging Military and Security Technologies by Braden R. Allenby Pdf

The essays in this volume illustrate the difficult real world ethical questions and issues arising from accelerating technological change in the military and security domains, and place those challenges in the context of rapidly shifting geopolitical and strategic frameworks. Specific technologies such as autonomous robotic systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, cybersecurity and cyberconflict, and biotechnology are highlighted, but the essays are chosen so that the broader implications of fundamental systemic change are identified and addressed. Additionally, an important consideration with many of these technologies is that even if they are initially designed and intended for military or security applications, they inevitably spread to civil society, where their application may raise very different ethical questions around such core values as privacy, security from criminal behaviour, and state police power. Accordingly, this volume is of interest to students of military or security domains, as well as to those interested in technology and society, and the philosophy of technology.

Author : George Lucas
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000806199

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Law, Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies by George Lucas Pdf

This book addresses issues of legal and moral governance arising in the development, deployment, and eventual uses of emerging technologies in military operations. Proverbial wisdom has it that law and morality always lag behind technological innovation. Hence, the book aims to identify, enumerate, and constructively address the problems of adequate governance for the development, deployment, and eventual uses of military technologies that have been newly introduced into military operations or which will be available in the near future. Proposals for modifications in governance, the book argues, closely track the anxieties of many critics of these technologies to the extent that they will proliferate, prove destructive in unanticipated ways, and partially or wholly escape regulation under current treaties and regulatory regimes. In addition to such concerns in domestic and especially in international law, the book addresses ethical norms in the professions involved in the design and eventual use of specific technologies, principally involving the professional norms of practice in engineering and the military (as well as biomedical and health care practice), which impose moral obligations on their members to avoid reckless endangerment or criminal negligence in the course of their activities. Thus, in addition to exploring the application of existing legal regimes and moral norms, the book examines how these professions might develop or improve the voluntary constraints on forms of malfeasance that are enshrined in their histories and codes of best practices. This book should prove of great interest to students of ethics, military studies, philosophy of war and peace, law, and international relations.

Author : George R. Lucas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:815947467

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Ethics and Emerging Military Technologies by George R. Lucas Pdf

Author : R. O'Meara,Linden Peach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137449177

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Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century: Ethics and Operations by R. O'Meara,Linden Peach Pdf

Governing Military Technologies in the 21st Century is one of the first books to tackle the big five technological threats all in one place: nanotech, robotics, cyberwar, human enhancement, and, non-lethal weapons, weaving a historical, legal, and sociopolitical fabric into a discussion of their development, deployment, and, potential regulation.

Author : Artur Gruszczak,Pawel Frankowski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315410715

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Technology, Ethics and the Protocols of Modern War by Artur Gruszczak,Pawel Frankowski Pdf

Contemporary security has expanded its meaning, content and structure in response to globalisation and the emergence of greatly improved world-wide communication. The protocols of modern warfare, including targeted killing, enhanced interrogations, mass electronic surveillance and the virtualisation of war have changed the moral landscape and brought diverse new interactions with politics, law, religion, ethics and technology. This book addresses how and why the nature of security has changed and what this means for the security actors involved and the wider society. Offering a crossdisciplinary perspective on concepts, meanings and categories of security, the book brings together scholars and experts from a range of disciplines including political, military studies and security studies, political economy and international relations. Contributors reflect upon new communication methods, postmodern concepts of warfare, technological determinants and cultural preferences to provide new theoretical and analytical insights into a changing security environment and the protocols of war in the 21st century. A useful text for scholars and students of security studies, international relations, global governance, international law and ethics, foreign policy, comparative studies and contemporary world history.

Author : Timothy J. Demy,George R. Lucas Jr.,Bradley J. Strawser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317661665

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Military Ethics and Emerging Technologies by Timothy J. Demy,George R. Lucas Jr.,Bradley J. Strawser Pdf

This volume looks at current and emerging technologies of war and some of the ethical issues surrounding their use. Although the nature and politics of war never change, the weapons and technologies used in war do change and are always undergoing development. Because of that, the arsenal of weapons for twenty-first century conflict is different from previous centuries. Weapons in today’s world include an array of instruments of war that include, robotics, cyber war capabilities, human performance enhancement for warriors, and the proliferation of an entire spectrum of unmanned weapons systems and platforms. Tactical weapons now have the potential of strategic results and have changed the understanding of the battle space creating ethical, legal, and political issues unknown in the pre-9/11 world. What do these technologies mean for things such as contemporary international relations, the just-war tradition, and civil-military relations? Directed at readers in the academic, scientific, military, and public policy communities, this volume offers current thought on ethics and emerging technologies from internationally-recognized scholars addressing the full spectrum of issues in present warfare technology. It includes current and ongoing topics of multi-discipline and international interest, such as ethics, law, international relations, war studies, public policy, science and technology. This book was originally published in various issues and volumes of the Journal of Military Ethics.

Author : National Academy of Engineering,National Research Council,Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society Advisory Group,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Board on Life Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies That Are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780309303262

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Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security by National Academy of Engineering,National Research Council,Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society Advisory Group,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Board on Life Sciences,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies That Are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible Pdf

The summary version of Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security distills the findings and recommendations of the complete report into a a booklet format. The full report is available here.

Author : Bernhard Koch,Richard Schoonhoven
Publisher : International Studies on Milit
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004507949

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Emerging Military Technologies by Bernhard Koch,Richard Schoonhoven Pdf

"The speed of technological change is demonstrated not least by the new military technologies that are in use or are currently being developed. For example, the use of remote-controlled and semi-autonomous weapons systems has long been standard in the armed forces, and advances in artificial intelligence mean that more "decision-making " can be expected to be transferred to the machines used by the military. But not everything that is technologically possible is ethically justifiable. This volume, which brings together contributions to an annual conference of the European Chapter of the International Society for Military Ethics, attempts to address the ethical and legal problems posed by emerging military technologies. In a number of exciting essays, internationally renowned researchers present their insights"--

Author : Patrick Lin,Keith Abney,Ryan Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190652951

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Robot Ethics 2.0 by Patrick Lin,Keith Abney,Ryan Jenkins Pdf

The robot population is rising on Earth and other planets. (Mars is inhabited entirely by robots.) As robots slip into more domains of human life--from the operating room to the bedroom--they take on our morally important tasks and decisions, as well as create new risks from psychological to physical. This makes it all the more urgent to study their ethical, legal, and policy impacts. To help the robotics industry and broader society, we need to not only press ahead on a wide range of issues, but also identify new ones emerging as quickly as the field is evolving. For instance, where military robots had received much attention in the past (and are still controversial today), this volume looks toward autonomous cars here as an important case study that cuts across diverse issues, from liability to psychology to trust and more. And because robotics feeds into and is fed by AI, the Internet of Things, and other cognate fields, robot ethics must also reach into those domains, too. Expanding these discussions also means listening to new voices; robot ethics is no longer the concern of a handful of scholars. Experts from different academic disciplines and geographical areas are now playing vital roles in shaping ethical, legal, and policy discussions worldwide. So, for a more complete study, the editors of this volume look beyond the usual suspects for the latest thinking. Many of the views as represented in this cutting-edge volume are provocative--but also what we need to push forward in unfamiliar territory.

Author : George R. Lucas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Military ethics
ISBN : 9780199336883

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Military Ethics by George R. Lucas Pdf

An approachable, case-driven account of global military ethics. Raises and responds to some of the most important and provocative questions about the proper role and conduct of military organizations and their members. Links sweeping, centuries-old political issues regarding war and the use of force in international relations to the day-to-day responsibilities of the individual members of the profession.

Author : Jai Galliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317096016

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Military Robots by Jai Galliott Pdf

Philosophers have wrestled over the morality and ethics of war for nearly as long as human beings have been waging it. The death and destruction that unmanned warfare entails magnifies the moral and ethical challenges we face in conventional warfare and everyday society. Intrinsically linked are questions and perennial problems concerning what justifies the initial resort to war, who may be legitimately targeted in warfare, who should be permitted to serve the military, the collateral effects of military weaponry and the methods of determining and dealing with violations of the laws of war. This book provides a comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, political and social questions concerning the rise of drone warfare.

Author : Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies that are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society,National Research Council,National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0309293340

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Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security by Committee on Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies that are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible,Computer Science and Telecommunications Board,Board on Life Sciences,Committee on Science, Technology, and Law,Center for Engineering, Ethics, and Society,National Research Council,National Academy of Engineering Pdf

Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security is a study on the ethical, legal, and societal issues relating to the research on, development of, and use of rapidly changing technologies with low barriers of entry that have potential military application, such as information technologies, synthetic biology, and nanotechnology. The report also considers the ethical issues associated with robotics and autonomous systems, prosthetics and human enhancement, and cyber weapons. These technologies are characterized by readily available knowledge access, technological advancements that can take place in months instead of years, the blurring of lines between basic research and applied research, and a high uncertainty about how the future trajectories of these technologies will evolve and what applications will be possible. Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security addresses topics such as the ethics of using autonomous weapons that may be available in the future; the propriety of enhancing the physical or cognitive capabilities of soldiers with drugs or implants or prosthetics; and what limits, if any, should be placed on the nature and extent of economic damage that cyber weapons can cause. This report explores three areas with respect to emerging and rapidly available technologies: the conduct of research; research applications; and unanticipated, unforeseen, or inadvertent ethical, legal, and societal issues. The report articulates a framework for policy makers, institutions, and individual researchers to think about issues as they relate to these technologies of military relevance and makes recommendations for how each of these groups should approach these considerations in its research activities. Emerging and Readily Available Technologies and National Security makes an essential contribution to incorporate the full consideration of ethical, legal, and societal issues in situations where rapid technological change may outpace our ability to foresee consequences.

Author : Jai Galliott,Mianna Lotz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317048435

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Super Soldiers by Jai Galliott,Mianna Lotz Pdf

The Spartan City State produced what is probably one of the most iconic and ruthless military forces in recorded history. They believed that military training and education began at birth. Post-World War II saw a shift to army tanks, fighter jets and missiles that would go on to fight the next huge battle in Northern Europe. Today, with the advent of unmanned systems, our hopes are attached to the idea that we can fight our battles with soldiers pressing buttons in distant command centres. However, soldiers must now be highly trained, super strong and have the intelligence and mental capacity to handle the highly complex and dynamic military operating environment. It is only now as we progress into the twenty-first century that we are getting closer to realising the Spartan ideal and creating a soldier that can endure more than ever before. This book provides the first comprehensive and unifying analysis of the moral, legal and social questions concerning military human enhancement, with a view toward developing guidance and policy that may influence real-world decision making.