Publications

2025

Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber, Dr. Jens Hälterlein

Autonomous weapon systems: Conditions and limits of meaningful human control

This dossier sheds light on the complex challenges regarding international AWS regulation, the question of accountability and the social and political consequences that arise from these new types of technology.
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Dr. Jens Hälterlein

The more-than-human biopolitics of swarming – complexity, emergence, and control in military robotics

The paper has been published open access in the European Journal of International Security. Cite: Hälterlein J. The more-than-human biopolitics of swarming – complexity, emergence, and control in military robotics. European Journal of International Security. Published online 2025:1-18. doi:10.1017/eis.2025.10023
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Daniel Giffhorn, Reinhard Gerndt

Kampf mit KI – vom Spiel zum Ernst

The project team at Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences is delighted to announce a new publication. The publication explores the subject area of our sub-project and explains some of the links between competitive and war scenarios.
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Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber

Trump rüstet für den Sci-Fi-Krieg

The article "Trump rüstet für den Sci-Fi-Krieg" by Jutta Weber appeared in the fifth issue of 2025 of the weekly newspaper "der Freitag". Bibliographic details: Weber, Jutta: Trump rüstet für den Sci-Fi-Krieg. In: der Freitag 5/2025, p. 13.
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Ishmael Bhila

Investigating the kill cloud: information warfare, autonomous weapons & AI

We are happy to announce the publication of the report of our conference together with the Disruption Network Lab in Berlin from the 29th of November to the 1st of December 2024. The paper reports on the discussions and presentations at the conference and maps out directions for critical research on algorithmic warfare, showing how the kill cloud impacts the victims of algorithms of violence.
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2024

Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber, Dr. Jens Hälterlein

“Meaningful Human Control” and Complex Human-Machine Assemblages – On the Limits of Ethical AI Principles in the Context of Autonomous Weapons Systems

The paper “Meaningful Human Control” and Complex Human-Machine Assemblages – On the Limits of Ethical AI Principles in the Context of Autonomous Weapons Systems by Jens Hälterlein and Jutta Weber has recently been published in the journal “Ethics and Armed Forces”. Bibliographic information: Jens Hälterlein & Jutta Weber: “Meaningful Human Control” and Complex Human-Machine Assemblages – On the Limits of Ethical AI Principles in the Context of Autonomous Weapons Systems. In: Ethics and Armed Forces, 1/2024, pp. 52-59.
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2022

PD Dr. Christoph Ernst

Accident, Interface And Picture Of The Situation. The Shoot-Down Of Iran-Air Flight 655 In The Context Of The Debate Of Autonomous Weapons Systems

The recent publication of the article „Unfall, Interface und Lagebild. Der Abschuss von Iran-Air Flug 655 im Kontext der Debatte um autonome Waffensysteme“ by Christoph Ernst in the journal „Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften“ is one of the first publications of a member of our project consortium. Bibliographic information: Ernst, Christoph (2022): »Unfall, Interface und Lagebild. Der Abschuss von Iran-Air Flug 655 im Kontext der Debatte um autonome Waffensysteme«. In: Unfälle. Kultur und Medien der Akzidenz (= Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 22, 2). Ed. Dominik Maeder, Siegen: Universi, p. 25-43.
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