Autonomous weapons and ethical judgments : Experimental evidence on attitudes toward the military use of 'killer robots'

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3qZRPqa3MP" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=3qZRPqa3MP</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pac0000601" target="_blank" >10.1037/pac0000601</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Autonomous weapons and ethical judgments : Experimental evidence on attitudes toward the military use of 'killer robots'

Original language description

The advent of autonomous weapons brings intriguing opportunities and significant ethical dilemmas. This article examines how increasing weapon autonomy affects approval of military strikes resulting in collateral damage, perception of their ethicality, and blame attribution for civilian fatalities. In our experimental survey of U.S. citizens, we presented participants with scenarios describing a military strike with the employment of weapon systems with different degrees of autonomy. The results show that as weapon autonomy increases, the approval and perception of the ethicality of a military strike decreases. However, the level of blame toward commanders and operators involved in the strike remains constant regardless of the degree of autonomy. Our findings suggest that public attitudes to military strikes are, to an extent, dependent on the level of weapon autonomy. Yet, in the eyes of ordinary citizens, this does not take away the moral responsibility for collateral damage from human entities as the ultimate &apos;moral agents&apos;. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50601 - Political science

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Peace and Conflict

ISSN

1078-1919

e-ISSN

1532-7949

Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

177-183

UT code for WoS article

000770418600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85130612333