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Option 1: The Ethics of Autonomous Warfare (Academic/Political)

: Discuss the "moral offloading" that occurs when machines select targets. If a robot commits a war crime, is the programmer or the commander responsible?. Bot Wars

Option 2: Robot Combat and the Evolution of STEM (Cultural/Technical) Bot Wars

Because "Bot Wars" refers to several different concepts, here are three essay outlines based on the most common interpretations: a futuristic military ethics analysis, a reflection on robot combat as a sport, or a literary analysis of the Bot Wars novel series. Bot Wars