Lecture series ‘Künstliche Intelligenz zwischen Klima, Krieg, Kontrollverlust’
The lecture series in the winter semester 2024/2025 aims to explicitly address the darker sides of AI. It will focus on critical analyses of societal conditions in the context of AI (such as police surveillance,…
Conference ‘Investigating the Kill Cloud ’
Dear Colleagues, Collaborators and Friends, I would like to announce a conference which we are organizing in collaboration with theDisruption Network Lab: INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD. Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI Berlin Nov 29 –…
‘Meaningful Human Control’ and Complex Human-Machine Assemblages
In the current issue of “Ethik und Militär” (1/2024, 52- 59), I have published a new article together with Jens Hälterlein entitled ‚Meaningful Human Control‘ and Complex Human-Machine Assemblages. Limits of Ethical AI Principles in…
Conference ‘Imaginations of Autonomy’
On 22-24 May 2024, an international and interdisciplinary conference entitled ‘Imaginations of Autonomy: On Humans, AI-Based Weapon Systems and Responsibility at Machine Speed‘ took place at the Chair of Media Sociology at the University of…
Autonomous drone swarms and the contested imaginaries of artificial intelligence
My essay “Autonomous drone swarms and the contested imaginaries of artificial intelligence” was recently published as part of a special issue on the ‘Airspace Tribunal. Towards a New Human Right to Live Without Physical or…
‘Being Tagged’: the digital reordering of the world
RFID technology (“Radio-Frequency Identification”) often remains invisible in our everyday lives, yet it is almost everywhere: the chips can be found in ID cards, vehicles, clothing, the environment, animals, and sometimes even people, among other…
Nature and Technology at the Ruhrtriennale 2023
On Sunday September 3, 2023, Lukas Bärfuss will join Prof. Jutta Weber for a conversation (Discourse, Dialogue). The event will take place as part of the series “Die Natur des Menschen” at the Ruhrtriennale at…
Under control? Research Association led by Paderborn University to scrutinise autonomous weapon systems
The use of weapons that act autonomously and without human assistance have long since left the realm of science-fiction and entered reality. According to UN reports they were already being used in Libya in March…
‘Thinking the Unthinkable’ – Sensing In/Security
How do sensing practices generate securities and insecurities? How do sensors affect security practices, surveillance, and infrastructures? The new edited collection ‘Sensing In / Security’ by Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Nikolaus Poechhacker and Geoffrey C. Bowker discusses…
New Publications: On Artificial Intelligence and Data-Driven Warfare
An article by Bianca Prietl and myself, in which we historically classify recent developments in data-driven artificial intelligence and critically examine current developments, has recently been published.: “Artificial Intelligence in the Age of Technoscience. In:…