Writings on Ethical Issues
Journal
Sharkey, Noel, (in press) The evitability of
autonomous robot warfare,
International Review of the Red Cross, for December, 2012
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C (in press) Robot
Surgery on the
cutting edge of ethics, IEEE Computer, for January 2013
Sharkey, N.E. (2012) Automating Warfare: lessons
learned from the
drones, Journal of Law, Information & Science, 21(2),
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C (2012) The Eldercare
Factory,
Gerontology, 58, 282-288
Sharkey, A.J.C. and Sharkey, N.E. (2012) Granny and
the robots: Ethical
issues in robot care for the elderly, Ethics and Information
Technology, 14,
27-40
Sharkey, N.E. (2011) The automation and proliferation
of military
drones and the protection of civilians. Journal of Law,
Innovation and
Technology, 3(2) 229–240
Sharkey, A.J.C. and Sharkey, N.E. (2011)
Anthropomorphism and deception
in robot care and companionship, IEEE RAM, 18 (1), 32-38
Sharkey, N.E. (2010) Saying "No!" to Lethal Autonomous
Targeting, Journal of Military Ethics, Vol. 9, No. 4, 299-313
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C. (2010) The crying
shame of robot
nannies: an ethical appraisal, Journal of Interaction Studies,
11, 161-190 Available from John Benjamin
Publishing website
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C. (2010) Robot nannies get a
wheel in
the door, Journal of Interaction Studies, 11, 161-190 Available from John Benjamin
Publishing website
Sharkey, N.E., Goodman, M., Ross, N. (2010) The
Coming Robot
Crimewave, IEEE Computer, August
Sharkey, N.E. (2009) A matter of precision, Defence
Management Journal,
Winter, 2009, 126-128
Sharkey, N.E. (2009) The Robot Arm of the Law grows longer,
IEEE
Computer, August, 2009
Sharkey, N.E. (2009) Death Strikes from the Sky: The
calculus of
proportionality, IEEE Science and Society, 28,
16-19
Sharkey, N.E. (2009) Weapons of indiscriminate lethality,
FIfF
Kommunikation, 1/09, 26-28
Sharkey, N.E. (2008) The Ethical Frontiers of
Robotics,
Science, 322. 1800-1801
Sharkey, N.E. (2008) Cassandra or the false prophet of
doom: AI robots and war,
IEEE Intelligent Systems, vol. 23, no, 4, 14-17,
JulyAugust Issue
Sharkey, N.E. (2008) Grounds for Discrimination:
Autonomous Robot Weapons,
RUSI Defence Systems, 11 (2), 86-89
Sharkey, N.E. (2007) Automated Killers and the Computing
Profession,
IEEE Computer, November, 106-108
Book Chapters
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C (2012) Robot surgery
and ethical
challenges, In Paula Gomes (Ed), Medical robotics: Minimally
invasive surgery,
Woodhead Publishing, ISBN-13: 978 0 85709 130 7, 276-291
Sharkey, N. (2012). Drone Proliferation and the
Protection of
Civilians. In G.L. BERUTO, ed. International Humanitarian Law
and New Weapon
Technologies. Milan: FrancoAngeli
Sharkey, N.E. (2012) Killing made easy: from joystics
to politics, in
Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics,
eds. Patrick
Lin, George Bekey, and Keith Abney, Cambridge: MIT Press
111-128
Sharkey, N (2012) L’avenir de las guerre par drones
interposes, in La
guerre robotisee, Didier Danet, Jean-Paul Hanon, Gerard de
Boisboissel (Eds),
Paris: Economica, 133-147
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C. (2012) The rights
and wrongs of robot
care, in Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of
Robotics, eds.
Patrick Lin, George Bekey, and Keith Abney, Cambridge: MIT
Press 267-282
Sharkey, N (2011) Processus décisionnels : vers
des réponses
automatisées aux questions de vie ou de mort, In Ronan
Doare and Henri Hude
(ed) Les Robots
Au Coeur Du Champ De
Bataille, 49-67
Sharkey, N.E. and Sharkey, A.J.C. (2010) Living with
Robots: Ethical
tradeoffs in eldercare, In Yorick Wilks (Ed) Artificial
Companions in Society:
scientific, economic and philosphical perspectives,
Amsterdam,: John Benjamins,
245-25
Sharkey, N.E. (in press) The ethical problems
for 21st century
robots: from the battlefield to law enforcement, RSA book of
Ethical futures
(aimed a policy makers)
Other (authored public articles)
(in press)
Autonomous robots and
the automation of warfare, International Humanitarian Law
Magazine, December
2012
Drone race will ultimately lead to a
sanitised factory of
slaughter, Saturday Guardian 4 August 2012
(reprinted in The Hindu
and The Gulf Times
Occupy Wall Street's 'occucopter' –
who's watching whom?
(with Sarah Knuckey) Guardian, December 21, 201
Are Foxconn robots the answer to
worker suicides, Guardian,
August 2, 2011
March of the Killer Robots,
Daily
Telegraph, 15th June, 2009
Robot girl mix-up: How “cut and
paste” journalism created
two robots out of one, Guardian Science Blog,
12 October, 2008
Grand Challenge: Children on the
front line of weapons
development, Guardian Science Blog, 27 August,
2008
Don't Dismiss the Robot Surgeons,
Guardian
commentary, 28th August, 2008
Death by Robot, Industrial
Focus: The
European journal of manufacturing, Magazine distributed by the
Guardian,
p62-65, May/June, 2008
The grim reality of robots
at war,
Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter, Winter, 2008
Robot Wars are a Reality,
Saturday Guardian,
18th August, 2007 (1000 words). Reprinted in full in The
Hindu,
20th August, 2007 and again as a Feature in the Gulf Times,
August, 23rd, 2007.
Reprinted in part in Iran Daily, 20th August, 2007