{"299651":{"#nid":"299651","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The Military Wants To Teach Robots Right From Wrong","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERonald Arkin, an\u0026nbsp;AI\u0026nbsp;expert from Georgia Tech and author of the book\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Governing-Lethal-Behavior-Autonomous-Robots-ebook\/dp\/B008I9YG9G\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books\u0026amp;ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1399927574\u0026amp;sr=1-1\u0026amp;keywords=Ronald+Arkins\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EGoverning Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots,\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a proponent of giving machines a moral compass. \u201cIt is not my belief that an unmanned system will be able to be perfectly ethical in the battlefield, but I am convinced that they can perform more ethically than human soldiers are capable of,\u201d Arkin wrote in a\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/ai\/robot-lab\/online-publications\/formalizationv35.pdf\u0022\u003E2007 research paper (PDF).\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;Part of the reason for that, he said, is that robots are capable of following rules of engagement to the letter, whereas humans are more\u0026nbsp;inconsistent.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27255","created_gmt":"2014-05-27 13:20:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:27:08","author":"Josie Giles","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"JS Coon Building","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2014\/05\/the-military-wants-to-teach-robots-right-from-wrong\/370855\/","dateline":{"date":"2014-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2014-05-14T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[{"id":"152","name":"Robotics"}],"keywords":[{"id":"1496","name":"Ethics"},{"id":"81491","name":"Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)"},{"id":"667","name":"robotics"},{"id":"2352","name":"robots"},{"id":"14444","name":"ron arkin"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}