1st Edition
Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and the Future of Warfare Global Perspectives
List of figures vii
Notes on the contributors viii
Preface and acknowledgements xii
Abbreviations xiv
Introduction: Intelligent autonomous war machines and the future of warfare 1
Kaushik Roy
1 Artificial intelligence, national security and the future of warfare 30
P.K. Mallick
2 Defence applications of artificial intelligence 71
Ajey Lele
3 Artificial intelligence and military aviation 91
A.K. Sachdev
4 AI-cyber nexus: Impact on deterrence and stability 108
Kritika Roy
5 Ethical analysis of AI-based systems for military use 124
Gregory M. Reichberg and Henrik Syse
6 Sentience in future war machines: The challenge of building ethics, morality and virtue as a normative engine 157
Swaminathan Ramanathan
7 Biased artificial intelligence systems and their implications in war scenarios 175
Kelly Fisher
8 Ethics, laws on war and artificial intelligence-driven warfare 187
Guru Saday Batabyal
9 Artificial intelligence in military operations: Technology, ethics and the Indian perspective 216
R.S. Panwar
10 Fighting insurgents with robots and drones: A case study of the Indian armed forces 227
Kaushik Roy
11 Artificial intelligence and the future of armed conflicts: Contextualising Africa in the global matrix 251
Gabriel Udoh
Index 273
Biography
Kaushik Roy is Guru Nanak Chair Professor in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He has authored several books from Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Springer, etc. and numerous articles in several peer-reviewed journals on the military history of Eurasia. At present, he is associated with PRIO’s ‘Warring with Machines’ project.
