Dr. Patrick Lin is the director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group,
based in the philosophy department at California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo. He is also lead editor of the book, Robot
Ethics.
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Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we've understood them.… More »
We hear a lot about the ethics of military robots, but little about the ethics of using machines for surveillance and reconnaissance… More »
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