This week, the Complex Terrain Laboratory, or CTLab, hosted another of its brilliant online symposiums. The topic of this one is Peter W. Singer’s book Wired for War and robots in warfare.
There are a lot of good posts over there to read. Go check them out.
My first of at least two posts just went up: Robots as Strategic Corporals. The second post will look at justifying the robots based on what can be done according to Western notions which creates, counter intuitively, an engagement model that is too permissive and detrimental to the mission as a whole. Certain acts, justifiable under international law, could backfire if the information effects are not anticipated, planned for, and managed effectively.
Read Robots as Strategic Corporals at CTLab.
See also:
- "Unamnned and Robotic Warfare: Issues, Options, And Futures" by the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
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