Ethical issues with use of Drone aircraft

Author

Wilson, Richard L.

Author_Institution

Philos./Eng. Manage., Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, USA

fYear

2014

fDate

23-24 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

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.

Keywords

aircraft; ethical aspects; human factors; autonomous drones; drone aircraft; ethical analysis; ethical issues; Aircraft; Educational institutions; Ethics; Military aircraft; Privacy; Surveillance; Unmanned aerial vehicles; Aircraft; Commercial; Drones; Ethics; Military;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ethics in Science, Technology and Engineering, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Chicago, IL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ETHICS.2014.6893424

Filename

6893424