Neglect benevolence in human control of swarms in the presence of latency

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phillip Walker ◽  
Steven Nunnally ◽  
Mike Lewis ◽  
Andreas Kolling ◽  
Nilanjan Chakraborty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Human Control

Dewey and Environmental Philosophy

2017 ◽  
pp. 712-732
Author(s):  
Paul B. Thompson ◽  
Zachary Piso
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Justice ◽  
Environmental Awareness ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
Environment Interaction ◽  
Human Control ◽  
The Core ◽  
Environmental Pragmatism

Though environmental philosophers trace the roots of environmental awareness to the decades of John Dewey’s prominence, Dewey himself was conspicuously mum about the environmental controversies of his day. A Deweyan environmental pragmatism, then, must find sustenance in less prosaically environmental themes of the American philosopher’s project. This chapter attends to Dewey’s notion of organism-environment interaction, which is at the core of Dewey’s understanding of experience and which informs Dewey’s philosophy from epistemology to aesthetics. The chapter stresses that Dewey’s notion of organism-environment interaction is an account of how organisms dynamically respond to changes in their environment. However, contrary to several misinterpretations of environmental pragmatism, this dynamic responsiveness is not a call for human control over nature. Indeed, we conclude that an environmental philosophy oriented by Dewey’s notion of organism-environment interaction provides promising approaches to interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and environmental justice.

scholarly journals Representation of climate change consequences in British newspapers

2021 ◽  
pp. 026732312097872
Author(s):  
Maria Laura Ruiu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Left Group ◽  
Impact Of Climate Change ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The Impact

This article explores British newspaper descriptions of the impact of climate change across three time periods. It shows a reduction in representing the consequences of climate change as ‘out of human control’. It also shows a decrease in adopting alarming and uncertain descriptions within the centre-left group, whereas mocking the effects of climate change is a peculiarity of right-leaning narratives. The complexity of climate narratives produces a variety of representations of the consequences of climate change, which in turn might increase ‘uncertainty’ in public understanding of climate change.

Stepping back from the brink: Why multilateral regulation of autonomy in weapons systems is difficult, yet imperative and feasible

2020 ◽  
Vol 102 (913) ◽  
pp. 235-259
Author(s):  
Frank Sauer
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Arms Control ◽  
Use Of Force ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Conventional Weapons ◽  
United Nations Convention ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Military ◽  
Weapons Systems

AbstractThis article explains why regulating autonomy in weapons systems, entailing the codification of a legally binding obligation to retain meaningful human control over the use of force, is such a challenging task within the framework of the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. It is difficult because it requires new diplomatic language, and because the military value of weapon autonomy is hard to forego in the current arms control winter. The article argues that regulation is nevertheless imperative, because the strategic as well as ethical risks outweigh the military benefits of unshackled weapon autonomy. To this end, it offers some thoughts on how the implementation of regulation can be expedited.

scholarly journals Towards approval of autonomous ship systems by their operational envelope

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ørnulf Jan Rødseth ◽  
Lars Andreas Lien Wennersberg ◽  
Håvard Nordahl
Keyword(s):  
Geographic Area ◽  
System Modelling ◽  
Modelling Language ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Operational Design ◽  
Autonomous Ship ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Operational Envelope ◽  
Concrete Operations ◽  
Current Guidelines

AbstractCurrent guidelines for approval of autonomous ship systems are focused on the ships’ concrete operations and their geographic area. This is a natural consequence of the link between geography and the navigational complexity, but moving the ship to a new area or changing owners may require a costly re-approval. The automotive industry has introduced the Operational Design Domain (ODD) that can be used as a basis for approval. However, the ODD does not include the human control responsibilities, while most autonomous ship systems are expected to be dependent on sharing control responsibilities between humans and automation. We propose the definition of an operational envelope for autonomous ship systems that include the sharing of responsibilities between human and automation, and that is general enough to allow approval of autonomous ship systems in all geographic areas and operations that falls within the envelope. We also show how the operational envelope can be defined using a system modelling language, such as the unified modelling language (UML).

scholarly journals Taking Back Control over Markets: Jürgen Habermas on the Colonization of Politics by Economics

2021 ◽  
pp. 003232172110186
Author(s):  
Peter J Verovšek
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
International Market ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Jürgen Habermas ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Jurgen Habermas ◽  
Recent Developments

Recent developments have highlighted the tension between democracy and late capitalist economics. In the wake of the Great Recession, international market forces have increasingly taken de facto control of politics. My basic thesis is that a modified version of Jürgen Habermas’ colonization thesis, which opposes the takeover of social and political life by the forces of power (administration) and money (economics), productively conceptualizes these developments. I argue that this framework can help to both diagnose and combat the dangers associated with the overexpansion of functional systemic forces, as well as the broader instrumentalization that they promote. By drawing on his political writings on the future of the European Union after the crisis of the Eurozone, I oppose interpretations of Habermas as a pacified liberal by demonstrating that he shares Karl Marx’s commitment to combatting naturalized views of economics and material reproduction as a force that lie outside of human control.

Determining Human Control Intent Using Inverse LQR Solutions

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Cody Priess ◽  
Jongeun Choi ◽  
Clark Radcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Human Subjects ◽  
Optimal Solution ◽  
Linear Matrix ◽  
Minimization Method ◽  
Human Control ◽  
Balance Task ◽  
Lqr Problem ◽  
Seated Balance ◽  
Gradient Based ◽  
Time Invariant

In this paper, we have developed a method for determining the control intention in human subjects during a prescribed motion task. Our method is based on the solution to the inverse LQR problem, which can be stated as: does a given controller K describe the solution to a time-invariant LQR problem, and if so, what weights Q and R produce K as the optimal solution? We describe an efficient Linear Matrix Inequality (LMI) method for determining a solution to the general case of this inverse LQR problem when both the weighting matrices Q and R are unknown. Additionally, we propose a gradient-based, least-squares minimization method that can be applied to approximate a solution in cases when the LMIs are infeasible. We develop a model for an upright seated-balance task which will be suitable for identification of human control intent once experimental data is available.

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