We live in an age of ever more impressive machines, capable of doing tasks, that no human being could achieve at that level of efficiency or of accuracy. Additionally, machines are the most obedient of servants to humans, because machines do not have free will or are capable to act of their own volition, for they are subject to not only the design limitations of their usage, as well as also being captive to the programming instructions that it must so adhere to. While, it may appear that certain machines are able to learn, it must be acknowledged that true learning requires consciousness, which machines do not have, though some machines are quite capable of becoming more skilled about the tasks that they are attending to. In short, machines “must” do what they have been programmed to do, whereas, humans are capable of the volition to make their own choices in life, for better or for worse.
So then, it must be said that machines are required to do what they have been designed to do, subject to a particular machine capabilities as well as the programming associated with that machine. This thus signifies that whenever a machine or device is used for the objective, for instance, of killing human beings or in the destruction of infrastructure, that first it must be acknowledged that machines and devices are capable of being not only designed with inherent errors to them, but also there is the fact that machines and devices can also be prone to unexpected unknowns, which signifies that even when precautions and contingencies have been taken into fair account, that things can thereby still happen which are unexpected through the usage of such. The fault though, when bad or undesired events happen through the utilization of machines, does not ever rest in the machine, but rather rests in the design and usage of such.
This thus means that those that point their finger at a machine, and say something to the effect of “bad machine,” have got it all wrong, for machines must do what they have been designed to do, subject to design errors as well as human interaction mistakes. In other words, because machines are not free will instruments, but human beings are, the ethics of machine usage, really comes down to the ethics of those that direct these machines or those who are required to use such in their responsibilities of their employment, which basically places the responsibility of such usage upon human beings. who know not only the difference between right and wrong, but that also know the difference between what they ought to do, and subsequently what they actually end up doing, which belies such.
Those then that push the buttons, or program a given machine, or give out the commandments to such, are those then that must bear some reasonable responsibility for the subsequent actions, good or bad, that occurs through the usage of a machine. That is to say, those that blame machines for the inhumanity so demonstrated one to another, have got to fairly admit, that machines are not ever guilty of that bad behavior, but rather people are