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[Gerhard Dabringer]

The Institute for Religion and Peace of the Austrian Military Chaplaincy is conducting a series of interviews on Robots, Ethics and the Military.

Interview with Ronald Arkin, Regents' Professor and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Interactive Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology and author of the book Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots (2009).
http://www.irf.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=288&Itemid=1

Interview with Roger Gay, M.Sc., vice president of Business Development and Project Coordinator at iRobis (Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia).
http://www.irf.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=286&Itemid=1

Interview with Colin Allen, professor of Cognitive Science and History & Philosophy of Science in Indiana University’s College of Arts of Sciences, a member of the core faculty in Indiana University’s Center for the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior and author (with Wendell Wallach) of the book Moral Machines. Teaching Robots Right from Wrong (2009).
http://www.irf.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=285&Itemid=1

Interviews will include: Robert Sparrow, George Bekey, Peter Asaro, Peter W. Singer, Fiorella Operto, Daniel Moore

[Gerhard Dabringer]

Interview with Dr Robert Sparrow, Senior Lecturer at the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University, Australia. His main fields of research are political philosophy (including Just War theory), bioethics, and the ethics of science and technology. He is currently working on a research project on the impact developments in military technology have on the military’s core ethical commitments, the character of individual warfighters, and on the application of Just War theory.

http://www.irf.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=291&Itemid=1

[Gerhard Dabringer]

Interview with Dr. Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative at the Brookings Institution, who is considered one of the world's leading experts on changes in 21st century warfare. His new book "Wired for War" (2009) investigates the implications of robotics and other new technologies for war, politics, ethics, and law in the 21st century.

http://www.irf.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=293&Itemid=1

[Gerhard Dabringer]

Interview with Peter Asaro, philosopher, member of the Faculty of the Department of Media Studies and Film at the New School University, New York and affiliated with the Center for Cultural Analysis at Rutgers University, New Jersey. This is the sixth of a series of interviews on robots and the military.

http://www.irf.ac.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=295&Itemid=1