As a World Economic Forum’s annual Global Risks report warns that an arms race is close at hand, should we be welcoming autonomous weapons? Dr Jai Galliott works at the Australian Centre for Cyber Security at the University of New South Wales in Canberra, Australia, says Yes. Robotics mitigates the human cost of war physically, psychologically or otherwise, and the level of this mitigation is largely dependent on the degree of automation and the removal of the human operator. [...]
