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

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

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

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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)

Název v anglickém jazyce

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

Popis výsledku anglicky

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)

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50601 - Political science

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Peace and Conflict

ISSN

1078-1919

e-ISSN

1532-7949

Svazek periodika

28

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

7

Strana od-do

177-183

Kód UT WoS článku

000770418600001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85130612333