Peter Asaro
Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, New School (New York City)
twitter: @PeterAsaro web: peterasaro.org
email: asaro [at] newschool [dot] edu
Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, New School (New York City)
twitter: @PeterAsaro web: peterasaro.org
email: asaro [at] newschool [dot] edu
killer robots | drones | cyber
Peter Asaro is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York City. He is the co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and a spokesperson for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Also an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, Asaro has written on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. His research also examines agency and autonomy, liability and punishment, and privacy and surveillance as it applies to consumer robots, industrial automation, smart buildings, aerial drones, and autonomous vehicles.
His research has been published in international peer reviewed journals and edited volumes, translated into French, German, Korean and Braille, and he is currently writing a book that interrogates the intersections between advanced robotics, and social and ethical issues. Asaro received his PhD in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also earned a Master of Arts from the Department of Philosophy, and a Master of Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science.
Select publications:
Asaro, Peter (2019) " AI Ethics in Predictive Policing: From Models of Threat to an Ethics of Care," IEEE Technology & Society Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 2019), pp. 40-53.
Asaro, Peter (2019) " What is an 'AI Arms Race' Anyway?," I/S: A Journal of Law for the Information Society, Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (Spring 2019), pp. 45-64.
Asaro, Peter (2019) " Algorithms of Violence: Critical Social Perspectives on Autonomous Weapons," Special Issue on Algorithms, Social Research, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 537-555.
Asaro, P. (2018). "Google's March to the Business of War Must be Stopped" (with Lucy Suchman and Lilly Irani), The Guardian, May 16.
Asaro, P. (2018), "Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons, and soon," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 27
Asaro, P. (2017) “Moral and Ethical Perspectives,” in Ray Acheson, Matthew Bolton and Elizabeth Minor (eds.) The Humanitarian Impact of Drones, Reaching Critical Will, pp. 141-149.
Asaro, P. (2016). “Jus nascendi , Robotic Weapons and the Martens Clause,” in Ryan Calo, Michael Froomkin and Ian Kerr (eds.) Robot Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 367–386 ( Braille translation by Don Winiecki).
Asaro, P. (2016) "'Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!' HRI and the Automation of Police Use of Force,” Special Issue on Robotics Law and Policy, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, Vol 5, No 3 (2016): pp. 55-69.
Asaro, P. (2015) “Roberto Cordeschi on Cybernetics and Autonomous Weapons: Reflections and Responses,” Paradigmi: Rivista di critica filosofica, Anno XXXIII, no. 3, Settembre-Dicembre, 2015, pp. 83-107.
Asaro, P. (2014). “Ethical Perspectives on Autonomous Weapons Systems,” in Autonomous Weapons Systems: Technical, Military, Legal and Humanitarian Aspects, International Committee of the Red CrossSummary Report of Expert Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, March 26-28, 2014, pp. 49-52.
Altmann, Juergen, P. Asaro, Noel Sharkey, and Robert Sparrow (2013). “Armed Military Robots: Editorial,” Ethics and Information Technology 15 (2), June 2013, pp. 73-76.
Asaro, P. (2013). “The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators,” Special Issue on Charting, Tracking, Mapping: Technology, Labor, and Surveillance, Gretchen Soderlund (ed.), Social Semiotics, 23 (2), pp. 196-224.
Asaro, P. (2012). “On Banning Autonomous Lethal Systems: Human Rights, Automation and the Dehumanizing of Lethal Decision-making,” Special Issue on New Technologies and Warfare, International Review of the Red Cross, 94 (886), Summer 2012, pp. 687-709 ( Braille translation by Don Winiecki, French Translation).
Asaro, P. (2008). “How Just Could a Robot War Be?” in Adam Briggle, Katinka Waelbers and Philip A. E. Brey (eds.), Current Issues in Computing And Philosophy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, pp. 50-64. ( French translation by Emmanuel Goffi)
Peter Asaro is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York City. He is the co-founder of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and a spokesperson for the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. Also an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, Asaro has written on lethal robotics from the perspective of just war theory and human rights. His research also examines agency and autonomy, liability and punishment, and privacy and surveillance as it applies to consumer robots, industrial automation, smart buildings, aerial drones, and autonomous vehicles.
His research has been published in international peer reviewed journals and edited volumes, translated into French, German, Korean and Braille, and he is currently writing a book that interrogates the intersections between advanced robotics, and social and ethical issues. Asaro received his PhD in the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he also earned a Master of Arts from the Department of Philosophy, and a Master of Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science.
Select publications:
Asaro, Peter (2019) " AI Ethics in Predictive Policing: From Models of Threat to an Ethics of Care," IEEE Technology & Society Magazine, Vol. 38, No. 2 (June 2019), pp. 40-53.
Asaro, Peter (2019) " What is an 'AI Arms Race' Anyway?," I/S: A Journal of Law for the Information Society, Vol. 15 No. 1-2 (Spring 2019), pp. 45-64.
Asaro, Peter (2019) " Algorithms of Violence: Critical Social Perspectives on Autonomous Weapons," Special Issue on Algorithms, Social Research, Vol. 86, No. 2 (Summer 2019), pp. 537-555.
Asaro, P. (2018). "Google's March to the Business of War Must be Stopped" (with Lucy Suchman and Lilly Irani), The Guardian, May 16.
Asaro, P. (2018), "Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons, and soon," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, April 27
Asaro, P. (2017) “Moral and Ethical Perspectives,” in Ray Acheson, Matthew Bolton and Elizabeth Minor (eds.) The Humanitarian Impact of Drones, Reaching Critical Will, pp. 141-149.
Asaro, P. (2016). “Jus nascendi , Robotic Weapons and the Martens Clause,” in Ryan Calo, Michael Froomkin and Ian Kerr (eds.) Robot Law, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 367–386 ( Braille translation by Don Winiecki).
Asaro, P. (2016) "'Hands Up, Don’t Shoot!' HRI and the Automation of Police Use of Force,” Special Issue on Robotics Law and Policy, Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, Vol 5, No 3 (2016): pp. 55-69.
Asaro, P. (2015) “Roberto Cordeschi on Cybernetics and Autonomous Weapons: Reflections and Responses,” Paradigmi: Rivista di critica filosofica, Anno XXXIII, no. 3, Settembre-Dicembre, 2015, pp. 83-107.
Asaro, P. (2014). “Ethical Perspectives on Autonomous Weapons Systems,” in Autonomous Weapons Systems: Technical, Military, Legal and Humanitarian Aspects, International Committee of the Red CrossSummary Report of Expert Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland, March 26-28, 2014, pp. 49-52.
Altmann, Juergen, P. Asaro, Noel Sharkey, and Robert Sparrow (2013). “Armed Military Robots: Editorial,” Ethics and Information Technology 15 (2), June 2013, pp. 73-76.
Asaro, P. (2013). “The Labor of Surveillance and Bureaucratized Killing: New Subjectivities of Military Drone Operators,” Special Issue on Charting, Tracking, Mapping: Technology, Labor, and Surveillance, Gretchen Soderlund (ed.), Social Semiotics, 23 (2), pp. 196-224.
Asaro, P. (2012). “On Banning Autonomous Lethal Systems: Human Rights, Automation and the Dehumanizing of Lethal Decision-making,” Special Issue on New Technologies and Warfare, International Review of the Red Cross, 94 (886), Summer 2012, pp. 687-709 ( Braille translation by Don Winiecki, French Translation).
Asaro, P. (2008). “How Just Could a Robot War Be?” in Adam Briggle, Katinka Waelbers and Philip A. E. Brey (eds.), Current Issues in Computing And Philosophy, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, pp. 50-64. ( French translation by Emmanuel Goffi)