A new sentry guards the
demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. It is South Korea’s
SGR-A1, a robot with the ability to autonomously identify and destroy targets.
This autonomous capability would make the SGR-A1 one of the “lethal autonomous
weapon systems” targeted today by activists campaigning to “stop killer robots.” One of their principal fears is that
such weapons will make conflict cheaper for states and therefore more likely to
occur. But the SGR-A1 is a case in point for the opposite: it shows that in
some situations, autonomous weapon systems can actually raise the threshold for aggression between states,
thereby making war less likely to occur.Monday, March 2, 2015
A new sentry guards the
demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. It is South Korea’s
SGR-A1, a robot with the ability to autonomously identify and destroy targets.
This autonomous capability would make the SGR-A1 one of the “lethal autonomous
weapon systems” targeted today by activists campaigning to “stop killer robots.” One of their principal fears is that
such weapons will make conflict cheaper for states and therefore more likely to
occur. But the SGR-A1 is a case in point for the opposite: it shows that in
some situations, autonomous weapon systems can actually raise the threshold for aggression between states,
thereby making war less likely to occur.
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