Death Inc.

Abstract

On March 23, 2018, the exhibition "Design Does* for better and for worse" opened at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona (Design Museum). The exhibition was steered through questions that provoked discussion about the roles and responsibilities of design in our society. It featured open-ended questions, with neither a right nor a wrong answer. Questions such as: should everything be automated? With this question Design Does* presented the piece Death Inc., a reflection on design applied to the arms industry. The exploration of a new style of killing that arises from the incorporation of image recognition technologies to military robots. The death of a human by a machine’s hands and decision.

Keywords

• computer vision
• Artificial Intelligence
• lethal autonomous weapons