Moral Responsibility in Twenty-First-Century Warfare: Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems PDF
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MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY WARFARE SUNY series in Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare ————— Amy E. Eckert and Steven C. Roach, editors MORAL RESPONSIBILITY IN TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY WARFARE Just War Theory and the Ethical Challenges of Autonomous Weapons Systems Edited by Steven C. Roach and Amy E. Eckert Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2020 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Roach, Steven C., editor. | Eckert, Amy, editor. Title: Moral responsibility in twenty-first-century warfare: just war theory and the ethical challenges of autonomous weapons systems / Steven C. Roach and Amy E. Eckert [editors]. Description: Albany : State University of New York, 2020. | Series: SUNY series in ethics and the challenges of contemporary warfare | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2020001177 (print) | LCCN 2020001178 (ebook) | ISBN 9781438480015 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438480022 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Military weapons—Technological innovations—Moral and ethical aspects. | Weapons systems—United States—Technological innovations. | Artificial intelligence—Moral and ethical aspects. | Military robotics—Moral and ethical aspects. Classification: LCC UF500 .M67 2020 (print) | LCC UF500 (ebook) | DDC 172/.42—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020001177 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020001178 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction Dual Moral Responsibility and the Ethical Challenges of Twenty-First-Century Warfare 1 Steven C. Roach and Amy E. Eckert Part I Just War and Moral Authority Chapter 1 Defending Conventionalist Just War Theory in the Face of Twenty-First-Century Warfare 21 Peter Sutch Chapter 2 The Fantasy of Nonviolence and the End (?) of Just War 47 Laura Sjoberg Chapter 3 Contemporary Nuclear Deterrence Dynamics and the Question of Dual Moral Responsibility 75 Thomas E. Doyle II vi Contents Chapter 4 Private Military and Security Companies: Justifying Moral Responsibility through Self-Regulation 105 Sommer Mitchell Part II Autonomous Weapons Systems and Moral Responsibility Chapter 5 The Rights of (Killer) Robots 133 David J. Gunkel Chapter 6 No Hands or Many Hands? Deproblematizing the Case for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems 155 Jai Galliott Chapter 7 Ethical Weapons: A Case for AI in Weapons 181 Jason B. Scholz, Dale A. Lambert, Robert S. Bolia, and Jai Galliott Conclusion: The Future (Idea) of Just War and Autonomous Weapons Systems 215 Steven C. Roach Contributors 221 Index 225 Illustrations Figures 7.1 A model of shared command and control between human and machine 191 7.2 Attitude Cognitive Architecture provides an integrated implementation of all components of cognitive competency 193 7.3 Illustrative symbolic primitives and symbolic relations for machines 197 7.4 The Joint Directors of Laboratories Information Fusion Model 199 7.5 Examples of machine visual semantic segmentation 199 7.6 Images as viewed through the weapon seeker video feed at three time points prior to impact 200 7.7 Management and agency of ethical weapons 205 Tables 4.1 Terms within each theme 118 4.2 Media characterization of PMSCs 119 4.3 Private security contractor third-country nationals in Iraq and Afghanistan 124 vii Acknowledgments This book is the first to be published in the SUNY book series, “Ethics and the Challenges of Contemporary Warfare,” which the editors of this volume recently established. We would like to thank Michael Rinella, the commissioning editor, for his marvelous support of this series and of this volume in particular. We are also grateful for the comments and suggestions from three external reviewers, who have helped tighten the focus of the volume and further integrate its chapters. ix
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