Published Works, Unpublished Works, Blogs, Talks, Podcasts, and me.
Here is a list of my work and ideas over the years. Since I’ve been doing this for a minute… I figured that I’d put this here for folks if they want to look anything up, watch anything, listen to anything, or just to get a sense of where my scholarship and research has gone over the years. So “content” wise… its full of ideas, but just a wee blog.
Book
Global Justice, Kant and the Responsibility to Protect: A Provisional Duty: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780203073834/global-justice-kant-responsibility-protect-heather-roff
Peer Reviewed Academic
Articles
Artificial Intelligence: Power to the People: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/ethics-and-international-affairs/article/abs/artificial-intelligence-power-to-the-people/1A35A67929E4A5C34216144243C805E0
Trust But Verify: The Difficulty of Trusting Autonomous Weapons Systems (with David Danks) https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15027570.2018.1481907
Lethal Autonomous Weapons & Jus ad Bellum Proportionality: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/cwrint47&div=8&id=&page=
Gendering a Robot: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14616742.2015.1094246
The Strategic Robot Problem: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15027570.2014.975010
Covert Actions & The Responsibility to Protect: https://brill.com/view/journals/gr2p/7/2/article-p167_5.xml
Kantian Provisional Duties: https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/jaret18&div=32&id=&page=
A Provisional Duty of Humanitarian Intervention: https://brill.com/view/journals/gr2p/3/2/article-p152_2.xml
A Response to Pattison: Whose Responsibility to Protect?: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15027570902805190
The Social Critic and Universal Morality: A Response to Finn: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23269995.2015.1018666
Book Chapters
Responsibility in War: Responsibility, Liability, and Lethal Autonomous Robots. https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=xlda4rfRk1QC&oi=fnd&pg=PA352&dq=info:kdDVl4I_dFcJ:scholar.google.com&ots=fHa5_Mjf1P&sig=Bd6IhixctqHxkrmuNJkvou8jWsA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cyber Perfidy, Ruse and Deception: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=VmfLCgAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA201&dq=info:3iePaiNvrgUJ:scholar.google.com&ots=zNZMzXmrDN&sig=1qftY60-ch3XqhdaRkWMLmBhJoE#v=onepage&q&f=false
Provisional Publicity: https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=NXAxEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA51&dq=info:a8ecihfKZZ4J:scholar.google.com&ots=FduTizXpKW&sig=UDp6HoxH7uhDmvneRrWAGgMx70Q#v=onepage&q&f=false
Think Tank Peer Reviewed Papers
Brookings:
The Folly of Trolleys: Ethical Challenges and Autonomous Vehicles: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-folly-of-trolleys-ethical-challenges-and-autonomous-vehicles/
Uncomfortable Ground Truths: Predictive Analytics & National Security: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/uncomfortable-ground-truths/
Chatham House:
Advancing Human Security through Artificial Intelligence: https://www.chathamhouse.org/sites/default/files/publications/research/2017-05-11-ai-human-security-roff.pdf
New America:
“Cyber Peace”: https://static.newamerica.org/attachments/12554-cyber-peace/FOR%20PRINTING-Cyber_Peace_Roff.2fbbb0b16b69482e8b6312937607ad66.pdf
ARXIV
Expected Utilitarianism: https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07321
Inequity aversion improves cooperation in intertemporal social dilemmas. (Me and a lot of others from DeepMind) : https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08884
The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation. (Me and a lot of others from all over) : https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.07228
Non-Academic Articles But with Flair & Such
AI Deception: When Your Artificial Intelligence Learns to Lie: https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-deception-when-your-ai-learns-to-lie
The Frame Problem: The “AI Arms Race” Isn’t One: https://thebulletin.org/2019/04/the-frame-problem-the-ai-arms-race-isnt-one/#post-heading
COMPASS: a new AI-driven situational awareness tool for the Pentagon: https://thebulletin.org/2018/05/compass-a-new-ai-driven-situational-awareness-tool-for-the-pentagon/
How Understanding Animals Can Help Make the Most Out of AI: https://theconversation.com/how-understanding-animals-can-help-us-make-the-most-of-artificial-intelligence-74742
What Do People Around the World Think About Killer Robots?: International law about autonomous weapons systems needs to consider public opinion: https://slate.com/technology/2017/02/what-do-people-around-the-world-think-about-killer-robots.html
Weapons Autonomy is Rocketing. https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/09/28/weapons-autonomy-is-rocketing/
The Next President Will Decide the Fate of Killer Robots. (Me and Peter Singer): https://www.wired.com/2016/09/next-president-will-decide-fate-killer-robots-future-war/
Stop Saying We will Drop “Cyber Bombs” on ISIS: https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2016/05/stop-saying-were-dropping-cyber-bombs-isis/128581/
Killer Robots on the Battlefield: The Danger of Using a War of Attrition Strategy with Autonomous Weapons: https://slate.com/technology/2016/04/the-danger-of-using-an-attrition-strategy-with-autonomous-weapons.html
Distinguishing Autonomous from Automatic Weapons: https://thebulletin.org/roundtable_entry/distinguishing-autonomous-from-automatic-weapons/
Autonomous Weapons: Not Just Smarter Bombs: https://thebulletin.org/roundtable_entry/autonomous-weapons-not-just-smarter-smart-bombs/
Fight ISIS by Thinking Inside the Bot. (Me, David Danks and Joe Danks): How we can use artificial intelligence to distract ISIS recruiters: https://slate.com/technology/2015/10/using-chatbots-to-distract-isis-recruiters-on-social-media.html
… There are more… I just don’t want to make it crazy.
Briefing Papers to State Delegates at the UN Convention On Conventional Weapons
Meaningful Human Control or Appropriate Human Judgment? The Necessary Limits on Autonomous Weapons: https://article36.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Control-or-Judgment_-Understanding-the-Scope.pdf
Meaningful Human Control, Artificial Intelligence, and Autonomous Weapons. (With Richard Moyes). https://article36.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/MHC-AI-and-AWS-FINAL.pdf
Contributions to Papers for Other Orgs:
Defense Innovation Board
Artificial Intelligence Principles for the Department of Defense: Primary Document: https://media.defense.gov/2019/Oct/31/2002204458/-1/-1/0/DIB_AI_PRINCIPLES_PRIMARY_DOCUMENT.PDF
Supporting Document: https://media.defense.gov/2019/Oct/31/2002204459/-1/-1/0/DIB_AI_PRINCIPLES_SUPPORTING_DOCUMENT.PDF
United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
Algorithmic Bias and the Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies. https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/algorithmic-bias-and-the-weaponization-of-increasingly-autonomous-technologies-en-720.pdf
The Weaponization of Increasingly Autonomous Technologies: Concerns, Characteristics and Definitional Approaches. https://unidir.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/the-weaponization-of-increasingly-autonomous-technologies-concerns-characteristics-and-definitional-approaches-en-689.pdf
Blogs
Magnifying Human Confusion: Meaningful Human Control and the Ongoing Debate on Autonomous Weapons: https://www.penncerl.org/the-rule-of-law-post/magnifying-human-confusion-meaningful-human-control-and-the-ongoing-debate-on-autonomous-weapons/
“Escape of the Gaak”https://blog.politics.ox.ac.uk/escape-of-the-gaak-new-technologies-and-the-ethics-of-war/
Guest Post: Monkey Cage - “Robot’s Don’t Lactate” https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2013/10/09/robots-dont-lactate-humanoid-robots-warfighting-and-gender/
Directory of all my blogs for Duck of Minerva: https://www.duckofminerva.com/author/hroff-perkins
Directory of all of my blogs for The Huffington Post: https://www.huffpost.com/author/heather-roff
Selected Talks on YouTube:
PodCasts
Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs: AI, Autonomy, and Ethics:
CNA: Responsible AI. https://www.cna.org/our-media/podcasts/ai-with-ai/season-5/5-17
Carnegie Council on Ethics & International Affairs. Making AI Work, Ethically & Responsibly. https://www.carnegiecouncil.org/media/series/eia/20191007-making-ai-work-ethically-responsibly-heather-roff
Unladylike: “How to Reboot Sexist Robots Episode 19. (note: the hosts get a few things incorrect about me, but oh well). https://www.unladylike.co/episodes/019/robots
Future of Life: Autonomous Weapons me and Peter Asaro.
Oxford: The Ontology of Autonomy for Autonomous Weapons Systems. https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/ontology-autonomy-autonomous-weapons-systems
Unpublished Articles:
An Ontology of Autonomy* On file with the author. This paper presents a defense of a new definition of autonomy, one based on the Greek interpretation of auto exousia. That means that it is about authority & delegation, not auto nomos or “self-governance.”