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SUMMARY:CISA Inaugural Lecture: &quot\;War - The Coming of the Machines&qu
 ot\; - Prof. Christopher Coker\, LSE
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CONTACT:Nicole Janz
DESCRIPTION:At the height of the insurgency in Iraq the US deployed 5\,000
  robots.\nIn the last 5 years UAVs or drones have taken out 75% of al-Qaed
 a's\nmiddle to upper managers. US scientists are now working on designs\nt
 hat will give the next generation of robots a 'consience' - a set of\nmora
 l algorithms similar to the set of moral heuristics programmed\ninto us by
  natural selection which we call a conscience\n\nRobotics will transform t
 he face of war hollowing out its  existenial\ncore - the need for courage
 \, risk taking and sacrifice and reducing\nsignificantly the human dimensi
 on of decision making.\n\nThe question we might ask ourselves is not the f
 amilar one - do we\nstill need war but a very unfamiliar and possibly more
  disturbing one\n- how long will war continue to need us?\n\nChristopher C
 oker is Professor of International Relations at the LSE Department of Inte
 rnational Relations. He is interested in\, among other topics\,  British f
 oreign policy and British defence policy. He has previously published: \n\
 nCoker\, Christopher (2010) Barbarous philosophers: reflections on the nat
 ure of war from Heraclitus to Heisenberg. Hurst & Co.\, London\, UK. ISBN 
 9781849040891\n2007\n\nCoker\, Christopher (2007) The warrior ethos : mili
 tary culture and the war on terror. Routledge\, London. ISBN 9780415424523
 \n2004\n\nCoker\, Christopher (2004) The future of war: the re-enchantment
  of war in the twenty first Century. Blackwell Publishing\, Oxford\, UK. I
 SBN 1405120428
LOCATION:Seminar Room A\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge CB2 1RX
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