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    Killer Robots - Drone Strikes of the Future?

    Published on Nov 23, 2012

    "Despite a lack of public awareness and public debate a number of governments, including European states, are pushing forward with the development of fully autonomous weapons - also known as killer robots. These are weapon systems that will function without any human intervention. The armed robot itself will select its target and will determine when to fire. This is a frighteningly dangerous path to follow in terms of the need to protect civilians during armed conflict.

    Killer robots would be unable to distinguish adequately between combatants and civilians in the increasingly complex circumstances of modern battlefields, and would be unable to make proper proportionality determinations. That is, whether the military advantages of an attack exceed the potential harm to civilians. Giving machines the power to decide who lives and dies on the battlefield would take technology too far. Killer robots would lack the human qualities necessary to protect civilians and comply with international humanitarian law. They would lack the ability to relate to humans and to apply human judgment."*

    Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola (Host, TYT University) discuss the "killer robots"-- deadly autonomous weapons in development now. What will happen if these go unregulated? Will they become the drone warfare of the future?

    *Read more from Steve Goose/ Human Rights Watch:
    "The Future of Global Warfare: Killer Robots"

    November 20, 2012

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    Car was attacked by mini robots
    April 1, 2013

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    The Dawn of Killer Robots

    Published on Apr 16, 2015

    In INHUMAN KIND, Motherboard gains exclusive access to a small fleet of US Army bomb disposal robots—the same platforms the military has weaponized—and to a pair of DARPA’s six-foot-tall bipedal humanoid robots. We also meet Nobel Peace Prize winner Jody Williams, renowned physicist Max Tegmark, and others who grapple with the specter of artificial intelligence, killer robots, and a technological precedent forged in the atomic age. It’s a story about the evolving relationship between humans and robots, and what AI in machines bodes for the future of war and the human race.

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    Autonomous Weapons: Information Technology and the Arms Race
    April 27, 2015

    Mark Gubrud, PhD, a member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, delivered a talk titled “Autonomous Weapons: Information Technology and the Arms Race” at 6 p.m. April 7 in Manning Hall 209. The talk was sponsored by the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS), the UNC Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense (PWAD), and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS). For more information, visit sils.unc.edu/events/2015/Gubrud-AWS.

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    War machines are developing faster than our ability to regulate them

    Published on Jun 5, 2015

    Where the 20th century was an era dominated by organizational hierarchies, the 21st century is all about networks. Fussell is a co-author of the McChrystal Group's best-selling book Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World.

    Read more at BigThink.com: bigthink.com/videos/the-future-battlefield

    Transcript - The 20th century was all about hierarchies. If you want to create something, if you want to start a country, create a product, whatever it is. Your goal is to create a highly efficient hierarchical model, scale it because that’s what the competition’s doing. And whoever does that the largest and with the most efficiency will eventually dominate the market, will be the dominant country, however you want to look at it. Everyone played some version of this game. The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age we can suddenly create free flow these globally distributed organic shaped networks of individuals. It’s a radically different environment for everyone. That translates into any space that you can imagine really. Everyone’s wrestling with some version of this because we grew up in the bureaucratic model and so we’re trying to change not just the way we act but our psychology and how we view the world. And it’s going to change the battlefield as well. You know it’s inevitable – the technology curve continues to grow exponentially. One of the major areas we’re seeing that is the debate around unmanned vehicles.

    So is a completely robotic battlefield out of the question at some point? No, I think it’s out of the question not to think about that as a possible end state. We’re so on the front edge of these debates that it’ll be laughable I imagine 100 years from now. But the fascinating part is if you look at the discussions around this type of technology for the most part our nation states are still trying to solve it through their traditional bureaucratic thinking. How do I legislate for this? What does it look like, et cetera, et cetera. And there’s going to just be an exponential change in how this has the real effects on the ground as the technology continues to grow. So now we have, you know, a single predator type overhead aircraft, unmanned, that can do, you know, X, Y, Z. A very, very significant jump over the past 20 years. Fast forward that 20 years and as the technology scale continues to increase exponentially that could be a single aircraft that has a network of thousands around it that are real time monitoring on the ground, in the air, buildings, whatever the case may be. Where the technology is pushing conflict is moving so much faster than our systems ability to adapt and regulate it that it’s going to be a real challenge for us the next ten to 15 years.

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    "Promotion and protection of all human rights, civil,
    political, economic, social and cultural rights,
    including the right to development
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    Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and
    protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while
    countering terrorism, Ben Emmerson

    February 28, 2014

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    Published on Jan 28, 2014

    The US military and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are working on next-generation lethal robots to use in war. But what happens when the robots can decide when to kill on their own?

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    Robot Warriors, Terrorists, & Private Contractors: What Future for the Laws of War?
    December 13, 2013

    Professor Noam Lubell, from our School of Law, looks at the 'war on terror', the rising using of private contractors, and dramatic technological advances and explores how these developments are challenging our ability to regulate armed conflicts, and examines whether the laws of war are capable of fulfilling their purpose.

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