Nun sag, wie hast du’s mit bewaffneten Drohnen? Die Haltung zu bewaffneten Drohnen in Deutschland und ihre Erklärungsfaktoren

Steinbrecher, Markus; Westphal, Fabrice

doi:10.1007/s12399-022-00901-z

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“…To our knowledge, there are barely any studies about lay people’s beliefs about military AI beyond drones (Aydin, 2019; Clothier et al, 2015; O’Dwyer and Ҫoymak, 2020; Steinbrecher and Westphal, 2022). In fact, it was an incident with a drone that triggered new fears about AI-driven killing (Hambling, 2021).…”

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Lay representations of artificial intelligence and autonomous military machines

Wagner,

Viidalepp,

Idoiaga-Mondragon

et al. 2023

Public Underst Sci

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This study is about how lay persons perceive and represent artificial intelligence in general as well as its use in weaponised autonomous ground vehicles in the military context. We analysed the discourse of six focus groups in Estonia, using an automatic text analysis tool and complemented the results by a qualitative thematic content analysis. The findings show that representations of artificial intelligence-driven machines are anchored in the image of man. A cluster analysis revealed five dominant themes: artificial intelligence as programmed machines, artificial intelligence and the problem of control, artificial intelligence and its relation to human life, artificial intelligence used in wars and ethical problems in developing autonomous weaponised machines. The findings are discussed with regard to people’s tendency to anthropomorphise robots despite their lack of emotions, which can be seen as a last resort when confronting an autonomous machine where the usual interpersonal understanding of intentions does not apply.

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