http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/nov/25/lethal-autonomous-robots-ethics-programming-robots-war/ http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/takeaway/takeaway112508i.mp3 Lethal autonomous systems: The ethics of programming robots for war http://www.thetakeaway.org/2008/nov/25/lethal-autonomous-robots-ethics-programming-robots-war/ http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/MQ-1-predator-unmanned-bagram-ab-afghanistan-UAV-usaf.jpg true 7727 segment Now that it's possible to program unmanned combat vehicles to make decisions about where (and who) to strike in war situations, new questions of ethics have risen: In which situations can we allow robots to make their own decisions? Can we program robots to follow the Geneva Conventions? There is a http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/MQ-1-predator-unmanned-bagram-ab-afghanistan-UAV-usaf_26_square.jpg http://media.wnyc.org/media/photologue/photos/tt/cache/MQ-1-predator-unmanned-bagram-ab-afghanistan-UAV-usaf_26_square.jpg