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	Podcast:		Everyday Ethics
	Episode:		Should weapons ever decide who is killed?
	Category:		Religion & Spirituality
	Duration:		00:22:11
	Publish Date:		2025-08-10 07:10:00
	Description:		Autonomous Weapons Systems can use artificial intelligence to identify, track and attack a target without any human intervention. They can also be used to defend. Many ethical questions surround their use, including whether they are really worse than a human giving the command to drop a bomb on a city? In the week that marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's surrender at the end of World War II, Audrey Carville was joined by Professor Elke Schwarz (vice chairperson of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control), Bernd Stahl (Professor of Critical Research in Technology at the University of Nottingham who also served as a drone platoon commander in the German Army) and theologian Dr Elaine Storkey.
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