This rather serious report should be of interest to LW. It argues that autonomous robotic weapons which can kill a human without an explicit command from a human operator ("Human-Out-Of-The-Loop" weapons) should be banned, at an international level.
(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/11/19/losing-humanity-0)
That's a serious ethical argument, by the way.
Well, it persuaded them ...
It requires some confusion as to the purpose of refraining from killing civilians, I think.
This rather serious report should be of interest to LW. It argues that autonomous robotic weapons which can kill a human without an explicit command from a human operator ("Human-Out-Of-The-Loop" weapons) should be banned, at an international level.
(http://www.hrw.org/reports/2012/11/19/losing-humanity-0)