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How a Human Rights Watch report is wrong


November 27, 2012

“This report, unfortunately, substitutes righteous outrage over straw robots for a serious contribution to that necessary dialog,” writes Brad Allenby, founding chairman of ASU's Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management in a recent Future Tense article on Slate.

Allenby takes down a new report released by the Human Rights Watch entitled “Losing Humanity: A Case Against Killer Robots” arguing the human vs. technology myth presented in the report is simply that; a myth. Allenby also details how such an argument is “too flawed and oversimplistic a foundation on which to build policy formulation.”

Read Allenby’s full article on Slate at the link below. 

Future Tense is a collaboration among ASU, the New America Foundation, and Slate magazine that explores how emerging technologies affect policy and society.

Article source: Slate magazine

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