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The Promises of Algorithmic Warfare – and Their World-Making Effects Artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems are increasingly shaping the strategies and tactics of warfare. It is not only current wars, such as those on…

As part of the conference “Diffracting the Critical” (STS-HUB 2025), which will take place from 11.3 – 14.3.2025 at the HU Berlin, Stephanie Schmidt (University Hamburg) and Jens Hälterlein (Paderborn University) are organising the panel…

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…

Following the “Investigating the Kill Cloud” Conference organised by the Disruption Network Lab and MEHUCO’s subproject “Swarm Technologies – Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems,” Jennifer Meninger from the German Stop Killer Robots Campaign…

In a new paper published in Digital War, Jutta Weber discusses the dual concerns surrounding AI-based autonomous weapon systems (AWS) and their potential impact on human security. Titled “Autonomous drone swarms and the contested imaginaries…