Legal, Ethical and Social Considerations for Robotics, Autonomous Systems, and Artificial Intelligence (RAS-Ai): What the Royal Australian Navy should consider in its RAS-Ai Strategy
By Commander Paul Davidson and Lieutenant Commander Jane Tsakissiris*
This article was first published in the Australian Naval Review, 2020, Issue 2, in December 2020.
‘I’m very sorry’, the drone said, without a trace of contrition.
(Sci-Fi author Iain Banks, 2012)
For all their high-tech sophistication, the drones and robots powered by AI that are likely to be part of future warfare, elicit both positive and negative responses. Robots and autonomous systems (RAS) are claimed to offer significant potential operational advantages.
