Ethical issues of uavs for national academy of sciences

Abstract

The chapter contains a transcript of testimony presented by the author and Handbook Field Editor to a select ad hoc committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences (USA) in response to a request from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to evaluate the “Ethical and Societal Implications of Advances in Militarily Significant Technologies that are Rapidly Changing and Increasingly Globally Accessible.” The testimony was delivered at the inaugural meeting of the committee on 31 August 2011 at the NAS Beckman Center, on the campus of the University of California – Irvine.