At the Chatham House conference, there were several panelists that were quite open that the value of human dignity required a human in the loop on such a momentous decision as who to kill that the ban should be in place even at a time when
fewer civilian casualties would result from use of autonomous weapons.
Autonomous weapons systems may also lead to
fewer civilian casualties due to enhanced rational decision - making, which would enable them to make decisions absent the emotional stresses of combat.
When robots fight in place of soldiers, will wars have
fewer civilian casualties?
The real «worst truth» here is that drone pilots still cause
fewer civilian casualties than the alternatives.
Not exact matches
However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of
civilian casualties from combat operations as
fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.
Yes, there is colateral damage, and there are
civilian casualties, but
fewer than with other methods, and those hazards exists in all forms of war (hence why I would understand religion protesting war in general).
A
few independent organizations, including the United Nations, have published their own reports on
civilian casualties in Afghanistan, but only for illustrating broad trends.
He decided against it because he was worried about the possibility of a
few dozen
civilian casualties in the missile strike.