Beyond the Responsibility Gaps in the Use of Autonomous Weapons: A New Ethical Framework within a Democratic Political Context

Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › PhD

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is twofold: firstly, to discover what critical junctures impacted the public discourse about lethal autonomous weapons in the U.S.A. between 2001 and 2019. Secondly, to understand and describe how (the mechanism) and to what degree (the extent), these critical junctures impacted the public discourse.
Date of Award12 Nov 2025
Original languageEnglish
Awarding Institution
  • University of Bath
SupervisorMattia Cacciatori (Supervisor) & David Galbreath (Supervisor)

Keywords

  • Ethics
  • Lethal Autonomous Weapons

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