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Ethical issues with use of drone aircraft

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ETHICS '14: Proceedings of the IEEE 2014 International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science, and Technology

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Published: 23 May 2014 Publication History

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This analysis is aimed at identifying the ethical issues related to a variety of types of Drone aircraft as they are currently deployed in recreational, civilian/commercial and military arenas. A series of examples will be examined in order to attempt to identify the ethical problems that we confront recreational, civilian/commercial and military uses of drones. In order to carry out the ethical analysis I will first survey how drone aircraft create ethical problems and how humans play an important role in how ethical issues emerge for drones. After the identification of the ethical issues with the types of drones we can next move on to how drone aircraft may function in the future and what ethical issues may arise for the future development and deployment of autonomous drones.

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Elya B. Joffe

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Herdel VYamin LGinosar ECauchard J(2021)Public Drone: Attitude Towards Drone Capabilities in Various ContextsProceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3447526.3472053(1-16)Online publication date: 27-Sep-2021
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