A Jurisprudential Inquiry into the Killer Humanoid Robot (book)
.jpg) | |
| Book Information | |
|---|---|
| Author | Hosseinali Bina and Amir Hossein Fahimi |
| Language | Persian |
| Volumes | 1 |
| Pages | 101 |
| Publication Information | |
| Publisher | Mirath-e Mandegar |
- Abstract
A Jurisprudential Inquiry into the Killer Humanoid Robot (Persian: جستاری فقهی در ربات انساننمای قاتل (کتاب)), by Hosseinali Bina and Amir Hossein Fahimi, is a work in Criminal Jurisprudence. The book aims to review the topic of killer robots but is critically flawed by a lack of editing and a disjointed structure. Its five discourses present disconnected topics—copied from uncredited or non-authoritative sources—without establishing any clear relevance to the central theme. Ultimately, the work fails to provide the comprehensive, analytical jurisprudential examination its title promises.
Content and Critical Assessment
The book's five discourses are presented as follows:
Discourse 1: A Brief History of Criminal Law
In the first discourse, the authors, in two pages, outline the history of the periods of criminal law, analyzing it in three main stages: private revenge, private justice, and public justice. In the stage of private revenge, punishment was carried out by the victim or their family. In the stage of private justice, the state had limited oversight over the process of imposing punishment. But in the stage of public justice, the state took full responsibility for the administration of justice and punishment (pp. 11-12).
Discourse 2: Introduction to Killer Robots
The second discourse introduces killer robots by uncritically reproducing several pages of reports from news agencies like IRNA. Notably, the content is cited not from the original sources but through unreliable third-party websites. However, the content from these two sites has been cited not directly, but through non-authoritative websites. This discourse examines the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence as the main factor increasing the likelihood of the emergence of killer robots and its transformation into a serious threat (pp. 14-22).
Discourse 3: Fundamental Concepts
In the third discourse, the authors explain fundamental concepts and topics related to the research, such as robot, programming, free will, coercion, muharabah, responsibility, and murder. In this section as well, content has been copied from books like *Ayat al-Ahkam* (written by Abbasali Amid Zanjani) and *Ahkam-e Hoquqi-ye Eslam* (written by Nematollah Yousefian), and no adequate explanation has been provided (pp. 25-45).
Discourse 4: Quranic Verses on Murder
In the fourth discourse, a brief translation and interpretation of verses related to murder are presented. This discourse only lists verses related to murder and confines itself to a general interpretation of these verses, and the authors have not explained the connection of this exegetical content to the main topic of the book. Most of the exegetical content is also not from jurisprudential or authoritative books (pp. 46-71).
Discourse 5: Jurisprudential Rules
In the final discourse, the authors examine important jurisprudential rules such as the rule of destruction (*qa'idat al-itlaf*), the rule of dominion (*qa'idat al-taslit*), and the rule of no harm (*qa'idat la darar*).
Critical Weaknesses in Structure and Content
In this discourse as well, only an explanation of the jurisprudential rules is mentioned, but the connection of these rules to the main topic of the book is not specified. In this section, in addition to copying texts from jurisprudential books, in some cases, Arabic phrases have been added without any translation or explanation (pp. 72-101).