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Navy looking at teaching robots how to behave

Date published: 
August 14, 2016

"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control — which is campaigning for a treaty to ban “killer robots” — questions whether a machine can be programmed to make the sort of moral and ethical choices that a human does before taking someone’s life.

Soldiers must consider whether their actions are justified and risks that they take are proportionate to a threat, he said.



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on August 14, 2016 at 10:00AM

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