+ - Robot ethics: Thou shalt not kill?-> 1
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angry tapir writes "Military drones are increasingly an important part of modern warfare, and they are heading more and more towards autonomous or semi-autonomous functioning, raising a host of ethical questions (Isaac Asimov for one would probably be upset)"
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Other useful links (Score:2)
International Committee for Robot Arms Control
http://icrac.net/ [icrac.net]
Call to boycott killer robots
http://www.monash.edu.au/news/show/call-to-boycott-killer-robots [monash.edu.au]
Sparrow, R., 2012, "Just say no" to drones, IEEE Technology and Society Magazine [P], vol 31, issue 1, IEEE, United States, pp. 56-63
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=6163996 [ieee.org] (not free - some excerpts at http://www.intropy.co.uk/2012/07/just-say-no-to-drones.html [intropy.co.uk] )
"No evil robots"
http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~vaughan/noevilrobots.html [cs.sfu.ca]