@article{ref1,
title="Lethal autonomous weapons systems, revulsion, and respect",
journal="Frontiers in big data",
year="2022",
author="Dean, Richard",
volume="5",
number="",
pages="e991459-e991459",
abstract="The potential for the use of artificial intelligence in developing lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) has received a good deal of attention from ethicists. Lines of argument in favor of and against developing and deploying LAWS have already become hardened. In this paper, I examine one strategy for skirting these familiar positions, namely to base an anti-LAWS argument not on claims that LAWS inevitably fail to respect human dignity, but on a different kind of respect, namely respect for public opinion and conventional attitudes (which Robert Sparrow claims are strongly anti-LAWS). My conclusion is that this sort of respect for conventional attitudes does provide some reason for actions and policies, but that it is actually a fairly weak form of respect, that is often override by more direct concerns about respect for humanity or dignity. By doing this, I explain the intuitive force of the claim that one should not disregard public attitudes, but also justify assigning a relatively weak role when other kinds of respect are involved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2624-909X",
doi="10.3389/fdata.2022.991459",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdata.2022.991459"
}