HuMach

HuMach's @profbode.bsky.social delivered a keynote lecture at the workshop "Who Are ‘Humans’ in Military AI?", held at Utrecht University.

She also presented the paper “Control and Human Agency in the Debate on Military Applications of AI”, co-authored with Anna Nadibaidze & Alexander Blanchard.

🎤 Our colleague Anna Nadibaidze was interviewed by @brankamarijan.bsky.social for the latest edition of the @ploughsharesca.bsky.social Monitor.

🔗 Read the exchange here: ploughshares.ca/the-ploughsh...

📣 NEW: Our colleague Anna Nadibaidze contributed to the Oxford Intersections: AI in Society series with the article "Governance of AI in the Military Domain: International Law, Norms, and Ways Forward".
Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/9780...

The HuMach project was represented by @profbode.bsky.social and Denise Garcia at the Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military Domain meeting taking place on 6-7 May in Abu Dhabi.

Denise Garcia is a commissioner on GC REAIM, while Ingvild Bode is an expert.

📣 NEW: "Contestation of Normativity in Military Practices and the AI Transformation" by our colleague Hendrik Huelss is available in the edited volume "Contestation in Prism" published by @springernature.com ⬇️

SDU Professor Ingvild Bode standing in front of a roll-up with the DIAS logo on it.

𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻-𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 – 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗴𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆❓

Thank you to Ingvild Bode, Director of Center for War Studies at @sdu.dk, for a truly thought-provoking talk on how AI technologies affect the human ability to make choices and act in warfare.

📅 19 March, 12:00-13:00 CET

Anna Nadibaidze will deliver an online guest talk at the AI Lund lunch seminar on the topic of "Conceptualizing the Human Role in Warfare: Beyond Control and Towards Agency?"

➡️ Register here: lnkd.in/dgmgAhrJ

📣We're happy to share that our colleague Ingvild Bode is one of the 5 recipients of this year's EliteForsk prize, awarded by the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science. Congratulations, @profbode.bsky.social!
ufm.dk/en/newsroom/...

Google’s Brave New World? Big Tech, Military AI, and the Trump Effect - AutoNorms In recent days, Google’s update of its AI principles that avoids clear ethical pledges in contrast to the 2018-version has gained attention. While this could be seen as a major policy shift of a big A...

In a new blog post, our colleague Hendrik Huelss argues that Google’s updated AI principles do not signal a significant policy shift. Read the blog on the AutoNorms project website:
www.autonorms.eu/googles-brav...

Image by Elise Racine & The Bigger Picture / Better Images of AI / Web of Influence I / CC-BY 4.0
@betterimagesofai.bsky.social

Investigating the Human Role in Warfare: Beyond ‘Control’ and Towards ‘Agency’? | HuMach The role of humans in warfare, especially in the use of force, has been one of the key concerns in the academic, policy, and regulatory debates on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into ...

📣Our first blog post is up!📣

Anna Nadibaidze writes about limitations to the concept of 'meaningful human control' and the need to examine the exercise of human agency in warfare ⬇️

humach.eu/investigatin...

HuMach's @profbode.bsky.social will speak at the conference "Military AI and the Resort to Force" held at the Centre for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen.

📅 Thursday 27 February, 9:00-17:00.

Register for the event: cms.polsci.ku.dk/events/confe...

In a new policy brief published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, HuMach's @profbode.bsky.social reflects on what practices of human-machine interaction mean for the exercise of human agency in use-of-force decision-making. Read it here: www.cigionline.org/publications...

📣 Introducing the HuMach project 📣

"The Distributed Agency of Humans and Machines in Military Applications of AI" is an international research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark and hosted by the CWS. To learn more, follow @humach.bsky.social or visit humach.eu.

📌Project launch📌
In October 2024 the HuMach team held its first meeting at Northeastern University, Boston.

PI Ingvild Bode launched the project as part of a roundtable organised by the Center for International Affairs and World Cultures. Watch a recording of the event: packnetwork.com/futureofai/

HuMach | Human-machine interaction in the military domain Explore HuMach, a Sapere Aude research project investigating human-machine interaction and AI governance in military domain.

HuMach ("The Distributed Agency of Humans and Machines in Military Applications of AI") is an international research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (DFF) & hosted by @cwswarstudies.bsky.social at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU).

🔗Learn more at: humach.eu