Ethical Issues in the Design of Unmanned Systems for Military Applications
Assessment outcome
total 2/4 (actionability 0 + authority 2); currency unscored, so pro-rated to 3.0/6
Authorship & scope
The chapter is clearly authored by Robert Sparrow.
Score 2: Peer-reviewed academic book chapter published by Springer.
Issuers, who it governs, legal force and content are on the full record.
Eligibility gates
HTTP 200, 2190 words of full text extracted
The source is explicitly about unmanned systems and autonomous military applications.
It directly addresses safety, ethics, and legal rules regarding unmanned military systems.
The chapter is clearly authored by Robert Sparrow.
There is no indication on the page that this academic chapter has been superseded or retracted.
Scored criteria
Actionability
0/2Score 0: Description or analysis only, offering discussion of implications without binding steps or principles.
This chapter identifies and discusses a number of issues under each of these headings and offers some analysis of the implications of each issue and how it might be addressed.
Authority
2/2Score 2: Peer-reviewed academic book chapter published by Springer.
Sparrow, R. (2021). Killer Robots: Ethical Issues in the Design of Unmanned Systems for Military Applications. In: Valavanis, K.P., Vachtsevanos, G.J. (eds) Handbook of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Cham.
Currency
—computed: no publish/modified date found on the page (never guessed)