Don’t drone? : negotiating ethics of RPAS in emergency response

Kerasidou, Xaroula and Buscher, Monika and Liegl, Michael (2015) Don’t drone? : negotiating ethics of RPAS in emergency response. In: Proceedings of The 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management :. ISCRAM, NOR. ISBN 9788271177881

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Abstract

This paper explores discourses of automation as a key ethical concern in the development of Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems for disaster response. We discuss problems arising from ‘humanistic’ dichotomies that pit human against machine, military against civil uses and experts against laypersons. We explore how it may be possible to overcome human-technology dichotomies.