Ethical Constraints and Contexts of Artificial Intelligent Systems in National Security, Intelligence, and Defense/Military Operations
Artificial Intelligence and Global Security
ISBN: 978-1-78973-812-4, eISBN: 978-1-78973-811-7
Publication date: 15 July 2020
Abstract
Weapons systems and platforms guided by Artificial Intelligence can be designed for greater autonomous decision-making with less real-time human control. Their performance will depend upon independent assessments about the relative benefits, burdens, threats, and risks involved with possible action or inaction. An ethical dimension to autonomous Artificial Intelligence (aAI) is therefore inescapable. The actual performance of aAI can be morally evaluated, and the guiding heuristics to aAI decision-making could incorporate adherence to ethical norms. Who shall be rightly held responsible for what happens if and when aAI commits immoral or illegal actions? Faulting aAI after misdeeds occur is not the same as holding it morally responsible, but that does not mean that a measure of moral responsibility cannot be programmed. We propose that aAI include a “Cooperating System” for participating in the communal ethos within NSID/military organizations.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
Dr. James Giordano's work is supported in part by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for Military Medicine; Leadership Initiatives; and federal funds UL1TR001409 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health, through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program (CTSA), a trademark of the Department of Health and Human Services, part of the Roadmap Initiative, “Re-Engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise.” The views presented in this chapter do not necessarily reflect those of the US Department of Defense, US Special Operations Command, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or the authors' supporting institutions and organizations.
Citation
Shook, J.R., Solymosi, T. and Giordano, J. (2020), "Ethical Constraints and Contexts of Artificial Intelligent Systems in National Security, Intelligence, and Defense/Military Operations", Masakowski, Y.R. (Ed.) Artificial Intelligence and Global Security, Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-78973-811-720201008
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