Military Review English Edition May-June 2014 | Page 20

systems.”19 These observations reflect the need for
reliability and predictability that one would expect
from an organization in which command responsibility is a guiding principle. At the same time, they
show that control of autonomous systems is partly
in the hands of those who develop verification and
validation methods or other methods of ensuring
trust and confidence in these systems.
The three different conceptions of autonomy
illustrate that autonomy does not mean that robots
are or will be out of the control of humans. The
different approaches to machine autonomy may,
nevertheless, have effects on how issues of responsibility are understood an B