Warfare through Robotic Eyes
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John Sullins fPET-2010 presentation
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Warfare through Robotic Eyes
- 1. Warfare Through Robotic Eyes John P. Sullins Associate Professor Philosophy Sonoma State University California 2010 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering & Technology (fPET-2010) XJ9: Robot Eye by ~ MentalFloss
Hinweis der Redaktion
- here I would like to focus on the epistemological concerns that are raised through the engineering choices made in the construction of these systems.
- What I want to focus on here concerns technology as a mode of knowledge-production from both the angle of the warfighters using the technology and the point of view of the victims and bystanders.
- the machine becomes the filter through which information about the combat situation is delivered to the operators and their commanders, who may be many miles away from the front lines.
- I hope to add weight to the idea that there is a new and more interesting wrinkle provided by robot telepistemology, one that is already changing the way we make life and death decisions on the battlefield.
- There are two locations for potential telepistemological noise in the robotic weapons systems we design. One is found in the technological medium the data is transmitted through and the other is the found in the operator’s training and preconceived notions about the data as it is presented by the system.
- the sensors on the machine (and the systems back where the pilot is controlling the machine) process the information and then present it to the operator thus mediating the operator’s beliefs about the world
- While we may think that these machines see the world with precision, the truth is that there are certain difficulties. The machines send back a great deal of data, but that data takes time to understand and synthesize, and time is a luxury on the battlefield. This necessitates making decisions that may be rushed and based on an incomplete understanding of the situation at hand (Singer, 2009).
- In addition, these machines also impose a layer of perceived invulnerability that can contribute to the second type of epistemic noise as described above. The enemy may be on the ground and in the cross hairs of the machine, but its operator is somewhat untouchable. This could give the operator a sense that the action is antiseptic and sterile.
- Today telerobotic weapons systems that are being deployed by the advanced militaries and this is shaping the beliefs and opinions others have about the nations that are using them.
- Already, the victims of the many telerobotic attacks that have occurred over the past few years have expressed their belief that these weapons are cowardly and that the weapons are also inflict devastating civilian casualties (Singer 2009). Whether or not these perceptions are true, they are the image that telerobotic weapons cultivate.
- A very odd example of how we might be sending unintended messages with these machines can be found in the strange tale of The Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR)™ (patent pending) project, which is being pursed by the US company Robotic Technology Incorporated (RTI).
- what it means for robotics to gain momentum both figuratively and, in the case of the EATR, literally from the carnage of war.