[NetBehaviour] Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics.

marc garrett marc.garrett at furtherfield.org
Wed May 20 10:40:17 CEST 2009


Robot warriors will get a guide to ethics.

When and what to fire will be part of hardware and software 'package'.

Smart missiles, rolling robots, and flying drones currently controlled
by humans, are being used on the battlefield more every day. But what
happens when humans are taken out of the loop, and robots are left to
make decisions, like who to kill or what to bomb, on their own?

Ronald Arkin, a professor of computer science at Georgia Tech, is in the
first stages of developing an "ethical governor," a package of software
and hardware that tells robots when and what to fire. His book on the
subject, "Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots," comes out
this month.

He argues not only can robots be programmed to behave more ethically on
the battlefield, they may actually be able to respond better than human
soldiers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30810070/



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