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Should Robots Be Blamed For Battlefield Mistakes? -- Discovery News
If a robot in combat accidentally kills a civilian, who is to blame?
This isn't as straightforward of a question as it sounds. A team of scientists presented a study at the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction and found that although robots don't have free will, people sometimes treat them as if they do.
The researchers had 40 undergraduate students play a scavenger hunt game with a human-like robot named Robovie. The robot was controlled remotely, but it appeared autonomous to the students.
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My Comment: I would blame both .... and if the programmers did their jobs properly .... the majority of the blame should then be on the human operators.
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