CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Vincent, Nikitha Margaret |
|---|---|
| Title | In Corporate We Trust: The Reluctant Powers of the Civilian Tech Sector around Autonomous Weapons Systems |
| Summary | In 2020, Boston Dynamics commercially released ‘Spot’, a mobile robot with autonomous capabilities. To no one’s surprise, many people were left unnerved by the uncanny semblance the bot bore to the ruthless, ever-evolving killer robot from the Black Mirror episode “Metalhe ad”. The civilian tech sector today is responsible for most of the cutting-edge developments in the field of autonomy and this is expected given that they build the AI that underpins autonomous systems. Yet there is a gap in literature exploring the civilian tech sector through the lens of power. Based on the work of Nik Hynek and Anzhelika Solovyeva in “Operations of power in autonomous weapons systems: ethical conditions and socio‑political prospects” my paper aims to explore the kinds of power the civilian tech sector specifically possesses within the arena of AWS discourse, using the taxonomy of power proposed by Michael Barnett and Raymond Duvall in “Power in International Politics”. |
| Supervisor | Roe, Paul |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/vincent_nikitha.pdf |
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