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1	The Next Arms Race? A Military Ethical Reflection on the Effects of Artificial Superintelligence on Drone Warfare and American Counterterrorism Boulianne Gobeil, Gabriel January 2015 (has links) The trend towards the automation and robotization of warfare, enabling the exercise of violence from a distance, has been long-present, dating back to such inventions as the bow and arrow that allowed an archer to kill from afar. Today’s military drones now permit an extreme separation between rivals. James Der Derian’s concept of virtuous war encapsulates a certain normative view of current and future wars. A rationale of the actors waging virtuous war is that violence is used in a cleaner way, resulting in ever fewer battle deaths. In this thesis, I argue that the next step in the progression of military weaponry is the inclusion of artificial superintelligence (hereinafter ASI) in the American drone and counterterrorism program. While including this technology into the American war machine may represent a moral objective, I conclude that the use of ASI for military purposes is immoral because accountability becomes indeterminable. Artificial Intelligence Military Drone Virtuous War Jus in Bello Counterterrorism Ways of War The Matrix Military Ethics Security Studies Accountability
2	Robotizace amerických ozbrojených sil v letech 2000-2011 a její perspektivy do roku 2020 / The robotization of US armed forces between the years 2000-2011 and its perspectives untill 2020 Kudrec, Martin January 2012 (has links) This thesis analyzes the development of US armed forces robotization in the last decade as well as its perspectives in the current one. It analyzes the dynamics and main trends as well as quantitative and qualititive direction of this development. This analysis is based on and makes use of conceptual and notational framework of post-structural virtual theory of security proposed by Der Derian. The first part of the thesis provides theoretical and conceptual background and introduces the topic. It also deals with basic technological trends which influence the later update operationalization of the technologically-based theoretical framework and time framework of the thesis itself. The second part of the thesis addresses the very analysis of the US armed forces robotization based on the first part. The main aim of the thesis is to point out the development dynamics of the US armed forces robotization as a trend, as the thesis begins with the analyzing of the implementation of the first modern partially semi-autonomous robots in american equipment and ends with the analysis of plans for massive introduction of highly-autonomous, self-learning robotic systems and systems of systems with partial social, "ethical" and "moral" parameters. The last section of the thesis also addresses the basic security and...
3	Producing Pacification: The Disciplinary Technologies of Smart Bombs and National Anti-War Organizing Culp, Andrew Curtis 08 September 2009 (has links) No description available. American Studies Geography Philosophy Political Science Foucault Deleuze Politics War Peace Virtuous War Power Disciplinary Power Pacification Bio-power Biopolitics Assemblage Smart Bombs IEDs Anti-war Protest Resistance Minor Science Affect Affectivism

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