Punishing Robots – Way Out of Sparrow’s Responsibility Attribution Problem

Journal of Military Ethics 19 (4):285-291 (2020)
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Abstract

The Laws of Armed Conflict require that war crimes be attributed to individuals who can be held responsible and be punished. Yet assigning responsibility for the actions of Lethal Autonomous Weapon...

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Maciej (Maciek) Zając
Polish Academy of Sciences

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Autonomous Weapon Systems: A Clarification.Nathan Gabriel Wood - 2023 - Journal of Military Ethics 22 (1):18-32.
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Killer robots.Robert Sparrow - 2007 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 24 (1):62–77.
Just war and robots’ killings.Thomas W. Simpson & Vincent C. Müller - 2016 - Philosophical Quarterly 66 (263):302-22.

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