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# Book Review: ‘Death Machines’ and the Limits of Algorithmic Ethics

Colin Henderson

A Synthesis of Elke Schwarz’s book ‘Death Machines’ and Its Implications for AGI Risk Synthesised from: Schwarz, E. (2018). Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies. Manchester University Press; Archambault, E. (2019). Review of Death Machines. International Affairs, 95(2), 470–471; and adjacent literature in autonomous weapons ethics and AI governance. Source: personal research and summarized, formatted and conclusions by Anthropic Claude.ai 1. What the Book Actually Argues Elke Schwarz’s Death Machines (2018) is frequently miscategorised as a book about drone warfare. It is not, or not primarily. Its true subject is what happens to moral reasoning when ethical decisions are … Continue reading # Book Review: ‘Death Machines’ and the Limits of Algorithmic Ethics

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Death Machines — Elke Schwarz (2018/2019)

Colin Henderson

Source Claude AI I studied and researched this book and little experience with #Arendt I go further researched in Claude and the results are illuminating and point to serious deficiencies in the “guardrails “ thinking that guides latest Government thinking on AI regulation. ———————————— This is a rich and genuinely important book, and you’ve landed on it at exactly the right moment given what’s unfolding with the Anthropic-Pentagon thread we’ve been tracking. Death Machines — Elke Schwarz (2018/2019)Core ArgumentSchwarz’s central move is philosophically subversive: she refuses to engage the ethics of lethal autonomous weapons on their own terms. The conventional … Continue reading Death Machines — Elke Schwarz (2018/2019)