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Ryan Jenkins is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and a Senior Fellow at the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA. He studies normative ethics and applied ethics, especially military ethics and emerging technologies. He has published on autonomous weapons, autonomous vehicles, cyberwarfare and just war theory. Michael Robillard is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford's Uehiro Center for Practical Ethics, working on the interface of collective responsibility and counter-terrorism. His research focuses on various topics in normative ethics, including exploitation and its relation to present-day military recruitment, war and its relation to future generations, and the ethics of emerging military technologies. Robillard is an Iraq war veteran and former Army Airborne Ranger. Bradley J. Strawser is an Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Defense Analysis Department at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA and a Research Associate at Oxford University's Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict (ELAC). His research focus is primarily ethics and political philosophy, though he has also written on metaphysics, ancient philosophy, and human rights. He edited Killing By Remote Control (Oxford, 2013).