Robotics Research Center Publishes Article on Killer Robots

The Robotics Research Center recently published an article in the War Room which is a U.S. Army War College (USAWC) online journal. The USAWC released its newsletter and featured the article. When LTC Christopher Korpela '96 graduated from the Army War College, in June, he headed to USMA to direct the Robotics Research Center. Here, he teams with RRC Fellow LTC Michael Saxon '94, Ph.D. to urge not only looking over the horizon, but planning now full autonomy of autonomous weapons in times of supreme emergency, as Michael Walzer proposes in the face of a nation facing imminent defeat by a rights-violating regime. “We must remain reluctant to make the choice for full autonomy and only make it in the direst of circumstances, but, ultimately, any rights-adhering nation that faces annihilation by a rights-violating, autocratic regime must be prepared to dirty its hands. If the mind faces defeat by the microprocessor, one must be prepared to flip the switch, removing humans from the loop.” Size up their logic: Click here to read the article.