Ethical Evaluation of Lethal Functions in Autoregulative Weapons Systems

This book connects two of the most pressing ethical topics of our time: questions of peace and technology, materialized in so-called autonomous weapons systems, which can operate without human control and intervention in real time. The author, however, criticizes the term "autonomy" as too anthropomorphic and therefore misleading. She consequently proposes using the term "autoregulation" in its pl...