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In September 2017, the UK media and a great deal of the international technology and defence press, announced that the UK had laid out a new doctrine in regards to autonomous weaponry. The Guardian reported, on 10th September, that Britain’s military will “commit to ensuring that drones and other remote…
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A recent installment of The Inquiry asked “Can we teach robots ethics”? The discussion in the episode provides some really interesting food for thought. Anyway, it reminded me that, for a while, I’ve wanted to write about something that troubles me in discussions of AI, and particularly military AI uses: The…
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I’ve written on this subject before (at considerably more length) but I wanted to offer a couple of reflections on responsibility and the “ethical moment” in war… I recently rewatched the rather brilliant (and long – oh, so very long) The Cruel Sea. In one of the films most iconic scenes, we…
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I’ve spent my day off with this wonderful biography of J Robert Oppenheimer. This quotation, on cruelty and responsibility is particularly striking, I think… dav
This week I am off to Hanover to a meeting on genome editing and biosecurity. I intend post some of my notes on this event over the next few days. Below is a poster on misuse concerns; something which paticipants were asked to put together. Hopefully this will be useful to newcomers in this area. … Continue reading
If you have not seen the 2017 film ‘Carnage’ you are probably not alone- but it might be worth a watch. This film depicts a futuristic vegan society coming to terms with its meat eating past. It captures the transition quite well- recapping the campaigns which led society to abandon meat and for the taboo against … Continue reading
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