This was my homework for The University of Tennessee's (Knoxville) Computer Science course CS400 Senior Design. The posts are summaries from the assigned readings in the textbook (Design of Design by Fred Brooks) and our group's final project and source code. Our final project was an arduino-based automated garden and a web-interface for plant growing profile control and sensor feedback.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Explain how using software systems to target, rob, and kill eliminates the ethical problem of these actions
They do not need to protect themselves in cases of low certainty of target identification. Autonomous armed robotic vehicles are not concerned with self-preservation. They can sacrifice themselves. There is no need for a ‘shoot first, ask-questions later’ approach. There will be an eventual development and use of a broad range of robotic sensors better equipped for battlefield observations that humans don't currently possess. Unmanned robotic systems are designed without emotions that cloud their judgment or result in anger and frustration with ongoing battlefield events. Whereas fear and hysteria are main concerns in combat which can cause criminal behaviors. Robots are not vulnerable to human psychological behavior. They can integrate more information from more sources faster before responding with lethal force than a human could possibly do in real-time. This data can come from multiple remote sensors and intelligence sources. Military systems will be too fast, too small and too numerous will create an environment too complex for humans to direct. When working in a team of combined human soldiers and autonomous systems as an organic asset, they have the potential capability of independently and objectively monitoring ethical behavior in the battlefield by all parties and reporting infractions that might be observed. This presence alone might possibly lead to a reduction in human ethical infractions.
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