Three ways robots can save lives in war
- Written by Sean Welsh, Doctoral Candidate in Robot Ethics, University of Canterbury
Military robots are not all bad.
Sure, there are risks and downsides of weaponised artifical intelligence (AI), but there are upsides too. Robots offer greater precision in attacks, reduced risk of collateral damage to civilians, and reduced risk of “friendly fire”.
AI weapons are not being developed as weapons of mass destruction....




