Publications

Books

Bartneck, C., Lütge, C., Wagner, A. and Welsh, S. (2020). An Introduction to Ethics in Robotics and AI. Cham; Springer International Publishing.

Bartneck, C., Lütge, C., Wagner, A. and Welsh, S. (2019). Ethik in KI und Robotik. Munich: Hanser.

Welsh, S. (2018). Ethics and Security Automata. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge.

Doctoral Dissertation

Welsh, S. (2019). Exploratory Moral Code: Formalizing Normative Decisions Using Non-Modal Deontic Logic and Tiered Utility. Christchurch, NZ: University of Canterbury.

Book Sections

Welsh, S. (2017). Clarifying the Language of Lethal Autonomy in Military Robots. In M. I. Aldinhas Ferreira, J. Silva Sequeira, M. O. Tokhi, E. E. Kadar, & G. S. Virk (Eds.), A World with Robots: International Conference on Robot Ethics: ICRE 2015 (pp. 171-184). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Welsh, S. (2017). Formalizing Complex Normative Decisions with Predicate Logic and Graph Databases. In M. I. Aldinhas Ferreira, J. Silva Sequeira, M. O. Tokhi, E. E. Kadar, & G. S. Virk (Eds.), A World with Robots: International Conference on Robot Ethics: ICRE 2015 (pp. 35-45). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Academic Papers

Welsh S. (2020). Resolving Clashing Norms Using Tiered Utility. IEEE Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Naples, Italy, August 31 - September 4, 2020.

Welsh S. (2019). Regulating Lethal and Harmful Autonomy: Drafting a Protocol VI of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society, Honolulu, Jan 27-28, 2019.

Welsh, S. (2016). Formalizing Hard Moral Choices in Artificial Intelligence. APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers (Fall 2016), 43-47.

Book Reviews

Welsh, S. (2017). Luís Moniz Pereira & Ari Saptawijaya, Programming Machine Ethics. Minds and Machines, Volume 27, Issue 1, pp. 253-257.

Welsh, S. (2016) Jerry A. Fodor and Xenon W. Pylyshyn, Minds Without Meanings: An Essay in the Content of Concepts. Minds and Machines, Volume 26, Issue 4, pp. 467-471.

Articles for Military Outlets

Welsh, S. (2021). Armed and Autonomous. Jane's Intelligence Review, Vol 33, Issue 8, 24-27.

Welsh, S. (2018). Coming Swarm: China Supports Ban on Autonomous Weapons. Jane's Intelligence Review, Vol 30, Issue 5, 36-37.

Welsh, S. (2018). Army of None: A Review. The Central Blue. Retrieved 23rd May, 2018 from https://www.williamsfoundation.org.au/post/army-of-none-a-review-em-sean-welsh--em

Welsh, S. (2018, 20 April). China's Shock Call for a Ban on Autonomous Weapons. Jane's Defence Weekly.

Welsh, S. (2018). Air Operations at the Level of Boots on the Ground. The Central Blue. Retrieved 28th Mar, 2018, from https://www.williamsfoundation.org.au/post/air-operations-at-the-level-of-boots-on-the-ground-sean-welsh

Welsh, S. (2018). Kill Switch: Autonomous Weapons Systems Raise Legal Questions. Jane's Intelligence Review, Vol 30, Issue 3, 50-53.

Welsh, S. (2017). Regulating Autonomous Weapons. The Strategist - ASPI. Retrieved 16th Nov, 2017, from https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/regulating-autonomous-weapons/

Welsh, S. (2015). Lethal autonomy in UUVs. Center for International Maritime Security. Retrieved 5th Jun, 2015, from http://cimsec.org/lethal-autonomy-autonomous-unmanned-vehicles/16732.

Articles for Mainstream Media Outlets

Welsh, S. (2024). Getting Better All the Time. Quillette. Retrieved Feb 15th, 2024, from https://quillette.com/2024/02/15/getting-better-all-the-time/.

Welsh, S., & Bennett, M.T. (2023). To Accelerate or Decelerate AI: That is the Question. Quillette. Retrieved Dec 18th, 2023, from https://quillette.com/2023/12/18/to-accelerate-or-decelerate-ai-that-is-the-question/.

Welsh, S. (2023). What Lies Beneath. Quillette. Retrieved Jun 23rd, 2023, from https://quillette.com/2023/06/23/what-lies-beneath/.

Welsh, S. (2023). ChatGPT and the Future of the Professions. Quillette. Retrieved Jan 26th, 2023, from https://quillette.com/2023/01/26/chatgpt-and-the-future-of-the-professions/.

Bennett, M.T, & Welsh, S. (2022). Will AI Spell the End of Capitalism. Quillette. Retrieved Jan 16th, 2022, from https://quillette.com/2022/01/16/ai-and-the-end-of-capitalism/.

Welsh, S. (2021). Troll Exposure. Quillette. Retrieved Dec 8th, 2021, from https://quillette.com/2021/12/08/troll-exposure/.

Welsh, S. (2021). Why Australia Opted for AUKUS. Quillette. Retrieved Oct 2nd, 2021, from https://quillette.com/2021/10/02/why-australia-opted-for-aukus/.

Welsh, S. (2021). The White of the AI. Quillette. Retrieved Apr 23rd, 2021, from https://quillette.com/2021/04/23/the-white-of-the-ai/.

Welsh, S. (2021). Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres. Quillette. Retrieved Mar 16th, 2021, from https://quillette.com/2021/03/16/standing-on-the-shoulders-of-ogres/.

Welsh, S. (2020). COVID-19 Returns to New Zealand. Quillette. Retrieved Aug 27th, 2020, from https://quillette.com/2020/08/27/covid-19-returns-to-new-zealand/.

Welsh, S. (2020). How New Zealand is Beating COVID-19. Quillette. Retrieved May 22nd, 2020, from https://quillette.com/2020/05/22/how-new-zealand-is-beating-covid-19/.

Welsh, S. (2020) The Case for a Mandatory COVID-19 App. Quillette. Retrieved May 7th, 2020, from https://quillette.com/2020/05/07/the-case-for-a-mandatory-covid-19-app/.

Welsh, S. (2019). Lies, Damned Lies and STEM Statistics. Quillette. Retrieved Mar 2nd, 2019, from https://quillette.com/2019/03/02/lies-damned-lies-and-stem-statistics/.

Welsh, S. (2018). Brotopia - Analysis and Review. Quillette. Retrieved Oct 12th, 2018, from https://quillette.com/2018/10/12/brotopia-analysis-and-review/.

Welsh, S. (2018). In Defence of Combat Robots. Quillette. Retrieved Aug 23rd, 2018, from https://quillette.com/2018/08/23/in-defence-of-combat-robots/.

Welsh, S. (2017). Three Ways Robots Can Save Lives in War. The Conversation. Retrieved Nov 13th, 2017, from https://theconversation.com/three-ways-robots-can-save-lives-in-war-87105.

Welsh, S. (2017). How a Second Korean War Might Be Fought. Euronews. Retrieved 25th Aug, 2017, from http://www.euronews.com/2017/08/25/how-the-second-korean-war-might-be-fought.

Welsh, S. (2017). How do you teach a driverless car to drive? World Economic Forum. Retrieved 12th Dec, 2017, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/04/how-do-you-teach-a-driverless-car-to-drive.

Welsh, S. (2017). Could military robots enforce safe havens in Syria? Euronews. Retrieved 18th Apr, 2017, from http://www.euronews.com/2017/04/18/view-could-military-robots-enforce-safe-havens-in-syria.

Welsh, S. (2017). Robots could put most humans out of work. What then? Euronews. Retrieved 4th Jan, 2017, from http://www.euronews.com/2017/01/04/opinion-robots-could-put-most-humans-out-of-work-what-then.

Welsh, S. (2016). Are we ready for Robotopia, when robots replace the human workforce? The Conversation. Retrieved 1st Sept, 2016, from https://theconversation.com/are-we-ready-for-robotopia-when-robots-replace-the-human-workforce-63653.

Welsh, S. (2016). World split on how to regulate "killer robots". The Conversation. Retrieved 18th Apr, 2016, from https://theconversation.com/world-split-on-how-to-regulate-killer-robots-57734.

Welsh, S. (2016). How robot submarines could replace the ageing Collins class? Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12th Apr, 2016, from https://www.smh.com.au/technology/how-robot-submarines-could-help-replace-the-ageing-collins-class-20160412-go4252.html.

Welsh, S. (2016). Robot subs could help replace our Collins Class fleet. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 11th Apr, 2016, from http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-04-11/welsh-robot-subs-could-help-replace-our-collins-class-fleet/7315904 (NB: this is the same article as the previous one. Both the ABC and the SMH picked this up on creative commons redistribute from The Conversation.)

Welsh, S. (2016). We need to keep humans in the loop when robots fight wars. The Conversation. Retrieved 29th Jan, 2016, from https://theconversation.com/we-need-to-keep-humans-in-the-loop-when-robots-fight-wars-53641.

Welsh, S. (2015). The drive towards ethical AI and responsible robots has begun. The Conversation. Retrieved 16th Dec, 2016, from https://theconversation.com/the-drive-towards-ethical-ai-and-responsible-robots-has-begun-52300.

Welsh, S. (2015). Deux sex machina: the ethics of robot love. The Conversation. Retrieved 25th Nov, 2015, from https://theconversation.com/deus-sex-machina-the-ethics-of-robot-love-51049.

Walsh, T., Dowe G., Lea, G., Galliott, J., Roberts, J., Michael, K., Korb, K., Sparrow, R., Welsh, S. (2015). Your questions answered on Artificial Intelligence. The Conversation. Retrieved 16th Nov, 2016, from https://theconversation.com/your-questions-answered-on-artificial-intelligence-49645.

Welsh, S. (2015). AI researchers should not retreat from battlefield robots: they should engage them head-on. The Conversation. Retrieved 3rd Aug, 2015, from https://theconversation.com/ai-researchers-should-not-retreat-from-battlefield-robots-they-should-engage-them-head-on-45367.

Welsh, S. (2015). Killer Robots: The Future of War? CNN. Retrieved 2nd May, 2015, from http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/14/opinions/welsh-killer-robots-conversation/.