Great essay by Rachel Coldicutt on AI existential risk narratives and their consequences, also in terms of power/expertise: "diverts attention from the harms being created right now"; "confers huge and unknowable potential power on those involved in creating those technologies"

Looking forward to this event at the Royal Danish Defence College next week, where I'll be speaking about AI targeting systems and moral responsibility. With Antoine Bousquet and dr ingvild bode. Thank you Daniel Møller Ølgaard for organising. Join us in person or online! fak.dk/da/Arrangement…

Call for papers for a workshop on #EmergingTech in international security, specifically for early career researchers - submit your abstracts and come visit us CWS - War Studies The AutoNorms Project

🌍 Introducing the Global Centre on AI Governance (GCG) A global hub based in Africa focused on fostering inclusive and equitable governance of AI technologies worldwide Join us in forging #equitableAI futures for everyone, everywhere! 🔗 Learn more: buff.ly/44GbYF7

📢New & Open Access📢 How does AI change military ‘observation’?Hendrik Huelss explores in this new article just published in Eur Jnl Int Sec: "Transcending the fog of war? US military ‘AI’, vision, and the emergent post-scopic regime" cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Anyone working on A.I, the use of force, and the future of war should check out this Special Issue. Very proud to be featured alongside such amazing scholars!

Yesterday, The AutoNorms Project own Anna Nadibaidze successfully defended her PhD - huge congratulations Dr Anna! Thank you to her assessment committee Olivier Schmitt Prof. Elke Schwarz Maria Mälksoo CWS - War Studies

A really fantastic and very stimulating couple of days in Paderborn. Thank you Jens Hälterlein and Jutta Weber for organising this very timely event on autonomous weapons and moral responsibility!

Happy to share this blog post where I reflect on what lessons the AWS debate can learn from existing arms control agreements that also follow a 2-tiered structure. Thanks to the ICRC for having it out 🙏 #GGELAWS #CCW

A phenomenal project: Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon invited data workers, the often abused & neglected lifeblood of the AI industry, to conduct their own research into their communities & write about it in their own words. This is true participatory AI. Visionary work. data-workers.org

Interested in pursuing a PhD? My department is inviting applications for PhD scholarships in all areas of political science, including International Relations, deadline 15 October: …sd-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

Did you miss my Forsvarsakademiet seminar on the promises and pitfalls of military AI? Or do you want to rewatch the brilliant keynotes from Prof. Elke Schwarz, dr ingvild bode and Antoine Bousquet? Well, you're in luck. The recording from the event has just been published: fak.dk/da/nyheder/202…

Please note that for applicants in International Relations, we are especially interested in PhD topics related to AI. Feel free to get in touch with me if your research interests go in this direction CWS - War Studies

On 19 September, AutoNorms' dr ingvild bode will deliver her inaugural lecture as Professor at the Department of Political Science at SDU. The lecture is entitled "Military Applications of #AI: Challenges and Perspectives". Register to attend: conferencemanager.dk/tiltraedelsesf…

Today marks the publication of a true first in the field; the first-ever Handbook on Drone Warfare With 37 of the world's leading experts, we cross disciplines, exploring the truly global rise & implications of drone proliferation 50% off with: DGBSS24 degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Now available: dr ingvild bode's & Anna Nadibaidze's chapter on "Autonomous Drones" in the De Gruyter Brill Handbook of Drone Warfare, edited by former CWS colleague James Patton Rogers. Find it here: degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

Happy to announce the publication of this short essay on #AI Technologies and International Relations in The RUSI Journal RUSI tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… The AutoNorms Project CWS - War Studies

On Monday (9 September) we host a breakout session at the REAIMsummit on the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare: Innovation, Impact, Regulation. We've got a great lineup of scholars & practitioners; join us if you're at the Summit or get updates on our site intimacies-of-remote-warfare.nl/events/realiti…