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New publication: Dossier “Autonomous weapon systems – Conditions and limits of meaningful human control”
The MeHuCo-Network published the dossier “Autonomous weapon systems – Conditions and limits of meaningful human control”. It sheds light on the complex challenges regarding international AWSregulation, the question of accountability and the social and political consequences that arisefrom these new types of technology …
New publication: 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 …
Call for Papers: The Promises of Algorithmic Warfare and their Worldmaking Effects – International Conference
Date: 11-13 February 2026 Location: University Hamburg, Germany Deadline: October 15th 2025 We invite submissions for the closing conference of our research network, ‘Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous weapon systems between regulation and reflection’, which critically examines the many promises of algorithmic warfare, their world-making, performative forces as well as their ambiguities, …
Lecture “Künstliche Intelligenz und Krieg” (Artificial Intelligence and War) at the Festival of Revolutionary Thought, Volksbühne Berlin
On October 12, 2025, Jutta Weber (Paderborn University) will give a lecture on Artificial Intelligence and War at the first Festival of Revolutionary Thought – Revolution No. 1: War and Peace, initiated by Sibylle Berg and Martin Sonneborn, at the Volksbühne in Berlin. She will also take part in the panel …
We are delighted to announce that the closing conference of the MeHuCo research network will take place from Wednesday 11.2.2026 to Friday 13.2.2026 at University Hamburg, Germany.
The Promises of Algorithmic Warfare – and Their World-Making Effects Artificial intelligence and autonomous weapon systems are increasingly shaping the strategiesand tactics of warfare. It is not only current wars, such as those on Ukraine and in Gaza, thatcontribute to the accelerated development and deployment of algorithmic technologies, butalso the promises …
Panel at the conference “Diffracting the Critical” (11.3.25 – 14.3.25, HU Berlin)
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 “Diffracting Algorithmic Warfare” (11.3.25, 13:00 – 14:30, Room 1.404). Ishmael Bhila (Paderborn University), Sofie van der …
