Lecture: “A Carelessly Constructed Machine of Violence: Polycrisis, Technorationality and AI-Based Warfare”

The lecture examined the development, epistemic logic, and materiality of AI-based warfare, as well as its consequences, drawing on examples from the U.S. “War on Terror” and the war in Gaza. It will also discuss Europe’s rapid build-up of advanced military AI capabilities as a response not only to Russia’s war against Ukraine, but also to an evolving multipolar world order and its accelerating polycrisis.

The AI-Military Complex: On Drones and New Ways of Warfare

On April 15, 2026, Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber delivered a lecture at the University of Klagenfurt entitled “The AI-Military Complex: On Drones and New Ways of Warfare.”

She was invited by the Center for Peace Research and Peace Education at the Institute of Educational Science and Research, in cooperation with the Institute of Media and Communication Studies. Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber has also published numerous works on this topic.

Film Screening: “Threatscapes and Data Points”

On July 1, 2026, at 7:00 p.m., Shona Illingworth’s film Threatscapes and Data Points: The Splintered Reality of AI-Based Warfare was screened at the Capitol Cinema in Marburg.

Shona Illingworth, a Danish-Scottish artist, created this film as part of this externally funded research project MeHuCo: Meaningful Human Control.

Following the screening, a discussion will take place with Prof. Dr. Jutta Weber in her role as the coordinator of the MeHuCo project. The discussion is organized by the Student Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (FuKschaft) at Philipps University Marburg.

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