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Ethics\n and Information Technology is calling for papers to be considered for \ninclusion in a Special Issue on the ethics of armed military robots\, to \nbe edited by Noel Sharkey\,\n Juergen Altmann\, Peter Asaro and Robert Sparrow. The need for this \nSpecial Issue became apparent at the Berlin meeting of the International\n Committee for Robot Arms Control in September\, 2010. This meeting \nexpressed deep concerns about the proliferation and\n development of armed military robots and identified a pressing need for\n more international discussion of the ethics of these systems:\nwww.icrac.co.uk
\nRecent\n armed conflicts have seen robots playing a number of important military\n roles\, yet informed ethical discussion has\, for the most part\, lagged \nwell behind. We therefore\n invite contributors from a wide range of disciplines including \nphilosophy\, law\, engineering\, robotics\, computer science\, artificial \nintelligence\, peace studies\, and policy studies\, to consider the ethical\n issues raised by the development and deployment of\n remote piloted\, semi-autonomous\, and autonomous robots (UXVs) for \nmilitary roles.
\nWill\n the development of sophisticated military robots make wars more likely?\n If so\, can the proliferation and use of war robots be controlled? How \nmight robots change the\n nature of modern warfare? And how should Just War Theory and \nInternational Law be applied to wars fought by robots and/or to the \noperations of robots in contemporary conflicts? We welcome submissions \nthat discuss or attempt to answer these &ndash\; or related &ndash\; questions.\n Given the contemporary political and military enthusiasm for remotely \noperated and semi-autonomous weapons\, we are especially interested to \nreceive submissions that offer a critical perspective.
\nOther suitable topics for papers for this special issue include (but are not limited to):
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Is it morally permissible to grant autonomous systems authority for the use\, or targeting\, of lethal force?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; What are the implications of the just war doctrine of\njus in bello for the operations of military robots and vice versa?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What are the implications of military robots for\njus ad bellum. Will they lower the threshold for starting wars?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What should an arms control regime governing robots seek to regulate?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What factors are at \nwork in decisions by states to work for or against such arms control\, \nwhat are commonalities with and differences from efforts and campaigns \nto ban other weapons?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; Who should be held \nethically and/or legally responsible for the operations of autonomous \nand semi-autonomous weapons? How should we understand agency and \nresponsibility in complex (or joint-cognitive or human-machine)\n systems controlling lethal force?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; How should the idea of\n military valor be understood in an age when war-fighters may be \nthousands of kilometers away from the wars that are fighting?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What are the ethical and political implications of the conduct of &ldquo\;risk free&rdquo\; warfare?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; What are the ethical and legal issues involved in the use of remote-operated drones for targeted killing?
\n&bull\; \; \; \; \; \; \; How might military necessity impact on the use of armed autonomous military robots?
\nSubmissions\n will be double-blind refereed for relevance to the theme as well as \nacademic rigor and originality. High quality articles not deemed to be \nsufficiently relevant\n to the special issue may be considered for publication in a subsequent \nnon-themed issue of Ethics and Information Technology.
\nClosing date for submissions: December 2\, 2011
\nTo submit your paper\, please use the online submission system\, to be found at www.editorialmanager.com/etin
\nPlease contact the special guest editors for more information\,
\nNoel Sharkey\,
\n\nJuergen Altmann\,
\nAltmann@e3.physik.tu-dortmund.de
\nPeter Asaro\,
\n\nRobert Sparrow
\n\nOr the managing editor\,
\nNoë\;mi Manders-Huits
\nN.L.J.L.Manders-Huits@tudelft.nl
\nEthics\n and Information Technology (ETIN) is the major journal in the field of \nmoral and political reflection on Information Technology. Its aim is to \nadvance the dialogue\n between moral philosophy and the field of information technology in a \nbroad sense\, and to foster and promote reflection and analysis \nconcerning the ethical\, social and political questions associated with \nthe adoption\, use\, and development of IT.
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