Ethics, Morals & Robots • DaisyDaisy

A group called The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots advocates for global treaties to stop AI from waging war without human approval. AI weapons are "grossly unethical and immoral," according to a celebrity advocate quoted in a newspaper. Unfortunately, so are any tools used to wage wars, as there's nothing ethical or moral about a sword, machine gun, or cruise missile. The decision to use them is about a lot of things, some of which can have legitimacy (like survival, freedom from fear or bondage), but weapons doing what they were designed to do have no deeper meaning than that. If the tools of war are unethical and immoral, by definition, to what higher standard should robots be held when it comes to sanctioning violence?