Introduction: Situating Drones in Surveillance Societies

Završník, Aleš

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“…These technologies may offer tremendous benefits, including increased precision and accuracy, as well as automation of military measures and counterterrorism programs; however, some researchers have highlighted concerns that autonomous AI-based drones and technologies in the military will ramp up discriminatory practices and unaccountable military activity on a political and legal level [ 58 ]. Furthermore, research have demonstrated that applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and drones constitute complex technologies augmented by a variety of technologies [ 69 ], necessitating the development of specialized legal frameworks to address civil liberties and privacy concerns [ 18 ]. Non-combatant civilians are being killed by military drones, igniting much controversy [ 6 ].…”

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“Ethically contentious aspects of artificial intelligence surveillance: a social science perspective”

Saheb

2022

AI Ethics

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“Ethically contentious aspects of artificial intelligence surveillance: a social science perspective”

Saheb

2022

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“…Still, drones present multiple legal and moral dilemmas (Cohn and Tutu, 2015; Di Nucci and Santoni de Sio, 2016; Završnik, 2016). The most controversial is the question of arming drones and robots, highlighted in 2016 when a man was killed by an armed robot in Dallas, and in 2022 when San Francisco decided the police could use armed drones, a decision that was later reversed (Hambling, 2022).…”

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“…Drones polarise opinion, and whereas some have embraced them with 'enthusiastic acceptance', others face them with 'relentless opposition' (Završnik, 2016). Many scholars find drones problematic, a critique often connected to their military origins, where they have also been used with lethal outcome (Bergen and Rowland, 2013;Chamayou and Lloyd, 2015;Davis, 2019;Hazelton, 2012;Pugliese, 2013;Sandvik, 2017;Stelmark, 2015), and where the technology has been regarded as dehumanising (Wall and Monahan, 2011).…”

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Reassembling operative policing: The introduction of drones in the Norwegian police

Lundgaard

2023

International Journal of Police Science & Management

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Drones are increasingly being used in various areas of society, including in the police. The drone and its sensors make it possible to collect live images of people, places and situations that are otherwise unavailable or hard to reach. Adding to the already complex assemblage of operative policing, what happens to policing when drones are introduced? Drones provide new forms of information to the police, connecting areas that were previously disconnected, and disconnecting what was previously connected. Recently, a small one-year trial with drones was carried out by the Norwegian Police Service, resulting in drones becoming a permanent fixture in the force. Data for this article were collected through approximately 380 h of ethnographic fieldwork during the trial period. This article explores how drones establish new assemblages within police practices and thus work as reassemblers of operative policing. The technology forms new entities and connections on multiple levels within policing, thus also constructing new dilemmas, as the drone can act both as a problem-solver and a troublemaker.

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Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

Kabouridis¹

2017

Epistemology and Transformation of Knowledge in Global Age

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With the development of personalized and globalized technologies, a discussion regarding how and why virtue epistemology should be an essential part of post-industrial ethical analysis on augmented technologies and use of robotics in the global age becomes crucial. These globalized technologies in the form of either game apps (i.e., Pokémon Go) or robotics like drones become through the Internet multimedia a structural part of planetary digitalization. While this development takes place, traditional virtue epistemology responds insufficiently to the devitalization of knowledge regarding manners (savoir vivre) and ways (savoir faire) of practicing and the need to respond to the sudden expansion of augmented games and drone use with personal and social intellect, responsibility, and consequently safety. The chapter intends to discuss this analysis in order to argue that a postindustrial epistemic reconfiguration of digital ethics is necessary, since augmented reality games and robotics are taking the form of massive trends for adults and nonadults, while for the first time, digital gaming and robot entertainment exceed the limits of the personal space and the virtual mode of the screen, moving out into the public realm, where reality is mixed with virtuality and human environment with unmanned robots.

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Introduction: Situating Drones in Surveillance Societies

Cited by 3 publications

References 9 publications

“Ethically contentious aspects of artificial intelligence surveillance: a social science perspective”

“Ethically contentious aspects of artificial intelligence surveillance: a social science perspective”

Reassembling operative policing: The introduction of drones in the Norwegian police

Post-industrial Virtue Epistemology on Globalized Games and Robotics

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