On the moral responsibility of military robots
On the moral responsibility of military robots
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DOI：
10.1007/s10676-012-9301-2
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发表时间：
2013-06-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Hellstrom, Thomas
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作者：
Hellstrom, Thomas
本文讨论了智能机器人的道德责任分配机制和原则，特别是军用机器人。我们将自主力作为一个新概念引入，并用它来识别需要道德考虑的机器人类型。此外，有人认为，自主能力，特别是学习能力，对分配给机器人的道德责任是决定性的。由于技术的发展将导致机器人的自主性越来越强，我们应该为人们指责机器人的行为的未来做好准备。今天，研究在这方面控制人类行为的机制是很重要的。该结果可用于设计未来的军用机器人，以控制将责任分配给机器人的不受欢迎的倾向。与责任问题无关，机器人行为的道德品质应该被视为我们评估机器人的众多绩效指标之一。如何设计以伦理为基础的控制系统，现在应该仔细研究了。从结果主义的观点来看，开发能够执行涉及生死的行为的机器人，而不包括某种道德框架，确实是非常不道德的。
This article discusses mechanisms and principles for assignment of moral responsibility to intelligent robots, with special focus on military robots. We introduce the concept autonomous power as a new concept, and use it to identify the type of robots that call for moral considerations. It is furthermore argued that autonomous power, and in particular the ability to learn, is decisive for assignment of moral responsibility to robots. As technological development will lead to robots with increasing autonomous power, we should be prepared for a future when people blame robots for their actions. It is important to, already today, investigate the mechanisms that control human behavior in this respect. The results may be used when designing future military robots, to control unwanted tendencies to assign responsibility to the robots. Independent of the responsibility issue, the moral quality of robots' behavior should be seen as one of many performance measures by which we evaluate robots. How to design ethics based control systems should be carefully investigated already now. From a consequentialist view, it would indeed be highly immoral to develop robots capable of performing acts involving life and death, without including some kind of moral framework.