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Preface | p. xi |
Acknowledgments | p. xix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Trends toward Lethality | p. 7 |
Weaponized Unmanned Ground Vehicles | p. 10 |
Weaponized Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | p. 21 |
Prospects | p. 26 |
Human Failings in the Battlefield | p. 29 |
Related Philosophical Thought | p. 37 |
What People Think: Opinions on Lethal Autonomous Systems | p. 49 |
Survey Background | p. 50 |
Response | p. 51 |
Comparative Results | p. 52 |
Discussion | p. 55 |
Formalization for Ethical Control | p. 57 |
Formal Methods for Describing Behavior | p. 58 |
Range of Responses: R | p. 58 |
The Stimulus Domain: S | p. 58 |
The Behavioral Mapping: ß | p. 60 |
Ethical Behavior | p. 62 |
Specific Issues for Lethality: What to Represent | p. 69 |
What Is Required | p. 70 |
Laws of War | p. 71 |
Rules of Engagement | p. 81 |
Standing Rules of Engagement | p. 82 |
Rules of Engagement (Non-SROE) | p. 84 |
Rules for the Use of Force | p. 86 |
ROE for Peace Enforcement Missions | p. 91 |
Representational Choices: How to Represent Ethics in a Lethal Robot | p. 93 |
Underpinnings | p. 95 |
Generalism-Reasoning from Moral Principles | p. 99 |
Deontic Logic | p. 99 |
Utilitarian Methods | p. 102 |
Kantian Rule-Based Methods | p. 103 |
Particularism: Case-Based Reasoning | p. 104 |
Ethical Decision Making | p. 108 |
Architectural Considerations for Governing Lethality | p. 115 |
Architectural Requirements | p. 119 |
Design Options | p. 125 |
Ethical Governor | p. 127 |
Ethical Behavioral Control | p. 133 |
Ethical Adaptor | p. 138 |
After-Action Reflection | p. 138 |
Affective Restriction of Behavior | p. 140 |
Responsibility Advisor | p. 143 |
Command Authorization for a Mission Involving Autonomous Lethal Force | p. 146 |
Design for Mission Command Authorization | p. 148 |
The Use of Ethical Overrides | p. 149 |
Design for Overriding Ethical Control | p. 152 |
Example Scenarios for the Ethical Use of Force | p. 155 |
Taliban Muster in Cemetery | p. 157 |
"Apache Rules the Night" | p. 162 |
Korean Demilitarized Zone | p. 167 |
Urban Sniper | p. 171 |
A Prototype Implementation | p. 177 |
Infrastructure | p. 177 |
A Prototype Implementation of the Ethical Governor | p. 178 |
Ethical Constraints | p. 179 |
Evidential Reasoning | p. 182 |
Constraint Application | p. 182 |
Proportionality and Battlefield Carnage | p. 185 |
Demonstration Scenario Overview | p. 188 |
Scenario 1-Suppressing Unethical Behavior | p. 190 |
Scenario 2-Maintaining Ethical Behavior While Minimizing Collateral Damage | p. 192 |
Implementing the Responsibility Advisor | p. 196 |
Establishing Responsibility When Tasking an Autonomous System Capable of Lethal Force | p. 196 |
Run-Time Responsibility Advising and Operator Overrides | p. 202 |
Continuous Presentation of the Status of the Ethical Governor | p. 203 |
Negative Overrides: Denying Permission to Fire in the Presence of Obligating Constraints | p. 205 |
Positive Overrides: Granting Permission to Fire in the Presence of Forbidding Ethical Constraints | p. 206 |
Summary | p. 209 |
Epilogue | p. 211 |
References | p. 213 |
Relevant Laws of War | p. 225 |
Acronyms | p. 243 |
Notation | p. 245 |
Index | p. 247 |
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