Banning Autonomous Killing
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2014
Abstract
From the Publisher
Long before the computerization of weapons technology, humanity debated the normative acceptability of new weapons.¹ The invention of the long bow, gunpowder, airplanes, weapons of mass destruction, and so on have all raised moral and legal concerns.² Unmanned aerial combat vehicles, or drones,³ became the focus of debate when the United States used a drone to launch a missile attack that killed several people in November 2001 in Afghanistan.⁴ It was the first known use of a drone, operated from a great distance, to kill. As the debate over drones grew, another debate, on the legality and morality of autonomous...
Recommended Citation
O'Connell, Mary Ellen, "Banning Autonomous Killing" (2014). Book Chapters. 43.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/book_chapters/43
Publication Information
in The American Way of Bombing: How Legal and Ethical Norms Change 224 (Matthew Evangelista & Henry Shue eds., 2014).
Available in Kresge Law Library