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Meaningful human command: Advance control directives as a method to enable moral and legal responsibility for autonomous weapons systems
Susannah Kate Devitt
21st Century war is increasing in speed, with conventional forces combined with massed use of autonomous systems and human-machine integration. However, a significant challenge is…
Bad, mad, and cooked: Moral responsibility for civilian harms in human-AI military teams
Susannah Kate Devitt
This chapter explores moral responsibility for civilian harms by human-artificial intelligence (AI) teams. Although militaries may have some bad apples responsible for war crimes a…
A method for ethical AI in Defence: A case study on developing trustworthy autonomous systems
Tara Roberson, Stephen Bornstein, Rain Liivoja +3
What does it mean to be responsible and responsive when developing and deploying trusted autonomous systems in Defence? In this short reflective article, we describe a case study o…
Developing a Trusted Human-AI Network for Humanitarian Benefit
Susannah Kate Devitt, Jason Scholz, Timo Schless +1
Artificial intelligences (AI) will increasingly participate digitally and physically in conflicts, yet there is a lack of trused communications with humans for humanitarian purpose…
Australia's Approach to AI Governance in Security and Defence
Susannah Kate Devitt, Damian Copeland
Australia is a leading AI nation with strong allies and partnerships. Australia has prioritised the development of robotics, AI, and autonomous systems to develop sovereign capabil…
Cognitive factors that affect the adoption of autonomous agriculture
S. K. Devitt
Robotic and Autonomous Agricultural Technologies (RAAT) are increasingly available yet may fail to be adopted. This paper focusses specifically on cognitive factors that affect ado…
The Ethics of Biosurveillance
S. K. Devitt, P. W. J. Baxter, G. Hamilton
Governments must keep agricultural systems free of pests that threaten agricultural production and international trade. Biosecurity surveillance already makes use of a wide range o…
Normative Epistemology for Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems
Susannah Kate Devitt
The rise of human-information systems, cybernetic systems, and increasingly autonomous systems requires the application of epistemic frameworks to machines and human-machine teams.…
Trust and Safety
S. K. Devitt, R. Horne, Z. Assaad +15
Robotics in Australia have a long history of conforming with safety standards and risk managed practices. This chapter articulates the current state of trust and safety in robotics…
AI Ethics Needs Good Data
Angela Daly, S Kate Devitt, Monique Mann
In this chapter we argue that discourses on AI must transcend the language of 'ethics' and engage with power and political economy in order to constitute 'Good Data'. In particular…
A Bayesian social platform for inclusive and evidence-based decision making
Susannah Kate Devitt, Tamara Rose Pearce, Alok Kumar Chowdhury +1
Against the backdrop of a social media reckoning, this paper seeks to demonstrate the potential of social tools to build virtuous behaviours online. We must assume that human behav…