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 …

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 and Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILF), together with Ishmael Bhila from Paderborn University …

Ishmael Bhila, who was a research fellow at Paderborn University looking at Global South conceptualisation of Meaningful Human Control, accountability and responsibility, has published a paper on the diplomatic challenges and opportunities of small states from the Global South in the discussions on autonomous weapons systems (AWS). Bhila discusses the significant …

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 of artificial intelligence”, the paper highlights a tension between the understated portrayal by military and industry, …

As part of the conference “Investigating the Kill Cloud – Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI · 10 Years Disruption Network Lab” (29.11–1.12.2024, Berlin), Jutta Weber will host the panel “Disarming the Kill Cloud”. The panel includes talks by: Lucy Suchman (Professor Emerita, Lancaster University, UK/CA), Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud (Senior Research Fellow, …

We are delighted to announce that the conference “AI and warfare – Investigating the technological and political domains of current conflicts” co-organised by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and the Department of Media Studies, University of Bonn as part of the Mehuco research network and will …