With partners that include Salesforce, Kaiser Permanente, Palantir Technologies and SAP, the center has been studying new ways to implement AI,
the civilian use of drones, distributed ledger technology and more.
Stories like this are rare in the US, where laws for
the civilian use of drones have yet to be worked out.
Not exact matches
The Obama Administration's
use of drones to attack terrorist targets has drawn scrutiny from those who point out that those same attacks sometimes kill
civilians.
This summer when a Lake Katrine man was on trial for
using a
civilian drone outside a Town
of Ulster medical building, Ulster County Assistant District Attorney Tom Colonna summed up «
drone anxiety» by telling the jury that the machines «put human eyes in a place, like 30 feet in the air outside an exam room window, where human eyes normally wouldn't be.»
Gurcan notes that while there are a number
of advantages to
using drones, such as effectiveness at removing key targets and avoidance
of friendly casualties, they may also increase the power
of extremists amongst
civilian populations by creating a siege mentality.
This lesson supports student explorations into the ethics
of using drones in
civilian life and warfare.
One excellent example
of the
use of social media to disseminate research findings is a 165 - page report by the International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic
of Stanford Law School (Stanford Clinic) and the Global Justice Clinic at New York University School
of Law (NYU Clinic) released this week, Living Under
Drones: Death, Injury, and Trauma to
Civilians From US
Drone Practices in Pakistan.
Most
of these have been greeted with a healthy dose
of skepticism south
of the border, largely due to the strict United States Federal Aviation Administration rules governing the
use of civilian drones.
Many countries are now rushing to enforce compulsory registration
of all commercial and
civilian drones due to concern over the
use of drones by individuals with little or no knowledge
of aviation rules.
Civilian drone use is regulated in the UK by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) for
drones up to a mass
of 150 kg, at which point jurisdiction currently shifts to Europe.
Last year, China implemented a policy requiring owners
of civilian drones over a given weight to register their flying gadgets
using their real names.
The high casualty rate from the indiscriminate
use of drones in
civilian areas and
use for extrajudicial executions.
The
use of armed
drones in conflict situations is increasing, causing far too many collateral
civilian deaths.