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Wired For War: The Prospects and Perils of Robotic WarfareSpeaker: Dr. Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative, Brookings Institution Date: Tuesday, November 10 2009 Time: 7:00PM to 9:00PM Location: MIT Building 6, Room 120 Host: CSAIL and the MIT Security Studies Program Contact: Karen Shirer, 617.253.3491, shirer@csail.mit.edu According to Peter W. Singer, an amazing revolution is taking place on the battlefield, starting to change not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war itself. Remote-controlled drones take out terrorists in Afghanistan, while the number of unmanned systems on the ground in Iraq has gone from zero to 12,000 over the last five years. But this is only the start. What is right and wrong in a world where our wars are increasingly being handed over to machines?
 
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