Given our current focus on The Flying Thing and the recent OpEd by Peter Singer over at NYT , I thought it important to note an internal ethical debate we have had around the shop.  In short, we are adopting the Three Laws as part of our values statement.  I prefer not to get into a political debate about the use of suAS/drones in combat, so let's just say we do not support any use of our technology (drones or otherwise) that violates the Three Laws: 

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.

It has been pointed out elsewhere that the Three Laws are not perfect.  That's fine; they are still better than nothing for a small shop that does not employ a professional ethicist.  There is a much more detailed debate going on about roboethics that I will leave to the reader to research for now.  When I get more time I may return to this topic to reflect on how it impacts our operations here at Metanomy.