This week, I was a class discussion leader. I enjoyed finding articles and videos for the class to engage with. One of the more interesting materials was the Does Technology Win Wars by Foreign Affairs. The article mentions and implies that war technologies work to lessen the amount of people lost in military conflicts, which is fascinating yet scary at the same time. A few classmates mentioned that yes, it is imperative that we reduce casualties for military conflicts. With new inventions such as strike drones, the military can make advances without sending real people on the ground. But at the same time, we should not be letting technologies make automatic, split second, and deadly decisions on their own. Once we take away the act of being the one to press the “send” button or make those decisions, it depersonalizes war and lessens the reality that people are being killed by these actions. This could then lead to even deadlier conflicts. 

Source: 

Schneider, Jacquelyn. “Does Technology Win Wars?” Foreign Affairs, 2023. 

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/does-technology-win-wars