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DESCRIPTION:Presented by Jean-Baptiste Jeangène Vilmer\, Banting Postdoctor
 al Fellow.  Abstract  (Available in English only) The US Congress anticipa
 ted that “by 2015\, one-third of the operational ground combat vehicles wi
 ll be unmanned”\, a change described as a 'revolution in the art of land w
 arfare'. At present\, these armed robots are remotely controlled by humans
 \, and the ethical issues involved are already complex. On one hand\, robo
 ts have certain advantages: the ability to save lives (those of the men th
 ey replace) and a superior performance at a lower cost if we take the exam
 ple of UCAVs. On the other hand\, they raise serious concerns including a 
 reduced capacity for discernment and hence\, discrimination (jus in bello)
 \; a tendency towards the sanitarization of war\, giving the impression th
 at it is “cleaner” than it really is\; and\, as a result\, a lowering of t
 he threshold for the purposes of resorting to armed violence (including po
 ssibly at the level of the jus ad bellum). The situation is further compli
 cated with the development of autonomous models with a capacity for “judgm
 ent” and decision-making\, for example to shoot at targets without human i
 ntervention.  The interesting question here is how current development pro
 grams will incorporate the principle of discrimination between combatant a
 nd noncombatant\, and the principle of proportionality\, all of which are 
 not objective measures but results of human judgment. In the case of a mis
 taken shot fired by an autonomous robot\, who should bear responsibility? 
 While researchers are thinking of ways to treat robots as legal quasi-agen
 ts\, they are not yet\, and probably will not be subjects of international
  humanitarian law for many years to come.
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SUMMARY:Robotization of Armed Conflicts: Ethical and Legal Challenges
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 thical-and-legal-challenges-218348
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