The kind of artificially intelligent soldier-robot from the futuristic movie The Terminator may be a long way off, but policy analysts are grappling now with limits on the military use of robots. (Herwig Prammer/Reuters)
On Monday, international discussion of killer robots will resume at the UN. There are obvious advantages to LAWS (Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems), but also obvious disadvantages. The advantage of being able to remove humans from the dangers of the battlefield are very tempting indeed. But the moral argument seems a bit weightier:
“Allowing robots to have power over life and death decisions crosses a fundamental moral line: the killing of humans by machines is an ultimate indignity in a certain sense, and humans should not be reduced to mere objects.”
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