Drones and responsibility : legal, philosophical and sociotechnical perspectives on remotely controlled weapons / edited by Ezio Di Nucci and Filippo Santoni de Sio

Drones and responsibility : mapping the field / Filippo Santoni de Sio & Ezio Di Nucci -- Autonomous drones and individual criminal responsibility / Dan Saxon -- State and individual responsibility for targeted killings by drones / Chantal Meloni -- Autonomous killer robots are probably good news / Vincent C. Müller -- Moral identity and remote controlled killing : a missing perspective / Bernhard Koch -- State responsibility and drone operators / Jesse Kirkpatrick -- The threshold of killing drones : the modular turing imitation game / Asa Kasher -- Delegation and responsibility : a human-machine perspective / Tjerk de Greef -- Civilizing drones by design / Aimee van Wynsberghe & Michael Nagenborg -- Drones, automated targeting, and moral responsibility / Alex Leveringhaus -- Drones @ combat : enhanced information warfare and three moral claims of combat drone responsibility / Michael Funk, Bernhard Irrgang & Silvio Leuteritz -- Autonomous killer drones / Nikil Mukerji

"How does the use of military drones affect the legal, political, and moral responsibility of different actors involved in their deployment and design? This volume offers a fresh contribution to the ethics of drone warfare by providing, for the first time, a systematic interdisciplinary discussion of different responsibility issues raised by military drones. The book discusses four main sets of questions: First, from a legal point of view, [the authors] analyse the ways in which the use of drones makes the attribution of criminal responsibility to individuals for war crimes more complicated and what adjustments may be required in international criminal law and in military practices to avoid 'responsibility gaps' in warfare. From a moral and political perspective, the volume looks at the conditions under which the use of military drones by states is impermissible, permissible, or even obligatory and what the responsibilities of a state in the use of drones towards both its citizens and potential targets are. From a socio-technical perspective, what kind of new human machine interaction might (and should) drones bring and which new kinds of shared agency and responsibility? Finally, [the authors] ask how the use of drones changes our conception of agency and responsibility."-- Back cover