A Jurisprudential Inquiry into the Killer Humanoid Robot (book)
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| Book Information | |
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| 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 (in Persian: جستاری فقهی در ربات انساننمای قاتل) is a book on Criminal Jurisprudence authored by Hosseinali Bina and Amir Hossein Fahimi, and published by Mirath-e Mandegar. The book is organized into five discourses and aims to provide a jurisprudential review of topics related to killer robots. However, the work is unedited and has a disjointed structure. The topics in its five discourses are presented independently without clarifying their connection to the main subject. Consequently, the book does not meet the reader's expectation for a comprehensive and analytical jurisprudential study of killer robots.
In the first discourse, the authors briefly outline the history of criminal law over two pages, 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).
The second discourse is dedicated to introducing killer robots and their various dimensions. In this section, the authors have copied several pages of reports from news agencies such as IRNA and the Young Journalists Club. Notably, the content from these sources is cited not directly but through non-authoritative third-party 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).
In the third discourse, the authors explain fundamental concepts related to the research, such as robot, programming, free will, coercion, muḥārabah, responsibility, and murder. Here too, content has been copied from books like Āyāt al-Aḥkām (written by Abbasali Amid Zanjani) and Aḥkām-i Ḥuqūqī-yi Islām (written by Nematollah Yousefian), without adequate explanation (pp. 25-45).
The fourth discourse presents a brief translation and interpretation of Quranic verses related to murder. It merely lists the relevant verses and offers a general interpretation, but the authors do not explain the connection of this exegetical content to the main topic of the book. Most of the exegetical material is also not from jurisprudential or authoritative sources (pp. 46-71).
In the final discourse, the authors examine important jurisprudential rules such as the rule of destruction (qāʿidat al-itlāf), the rule of dominion (qāʿidat al-taslīṭ), and the no-harm rule (qāʿidat lā ḍarar). This section also only explains the jurisprudential rules without specifying their relevance to the book's main topic. In addition to copying texts from jurisprudential books, in some cases, Arabic phrases have been added without any translation or explanation (pp. 72-101).