Keynote: Realities of Algorithmic Warfare and Civilian Harm
Events
Dr. Lauren Gould and Jessica Dorsey provide a keynote for the Contestations.AI symposium on the 23rd of October in Helsinki.
Lauren Gould is Assistant Professor in Conflict Studies and the project leader of the Intimacies of Remote Warfare programme. Gould's research projects study how the US has spearheaded this form of military engagement, but also how many other advanced militaries are following suit. Gould's research projects trace how remote warfare is legitimized, what military alliances are forged, what technologies are used and how these actors and technologies interact and have an impact on civilian harm. From a conflict and critical security studies perspective her aim is to conceptualise the changing character of war in the 21st century.
Gould has conducted fieldwork in Uganda, South Sudan and in Iraq in collaboration with NGO PAX for Peace. She has also conducted fieldwork closer to home, including the Netherlands, UK and Belgium.
Gould is a Utrecht University (UU) Public Engagement fellow, a core member of the Centre for Global Challenges and the IOS Contesting Governance platform, and sits on the board of the Nuhanovic Foundation. In 2019-2020 she participated in the UU Westerdijk Programme for talented female scholars.
She is a lecturer at the Centre for Conflict Studies and the coordinator of the minor Conflict Studies. She is the founder and coordinator of the UU Summer School 'Contemporary Conflict Analysis: Actors, Issues & Technologies of 21st Century Warfare', designed for practioners and (international) students.
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Podcast
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Commentary
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Conference
Join IRW at the Travelling Technologies Symposium on the 1st of December 2023.
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Events
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Commentary
A reflection on Google’s volatile policy on the development of military-related AI and what it tells us about the hope for Silicon Valley’s self-regulation.
The Rise of the Turkish ‘Bayraktar’ Drone
Commentary
Author Stephen Witt writes an engaging account on the history of the Turkish Bayraktar drone and its exceeding capabilities compared to its rival’s drone systems
The Political Economy of Drones
Article
Hall and Coyne (2013) offer an interesting political economy perspective on the evolution and expansion of the drone industry in the US.
Reflections on the realities of Security Force Assistance
Podcast
Prof. dr. Will Reno and military Prof. Matisek discuss the realities of Security Force Assistance in this episode of the Modern War Institute podcast.
IRW presents article on algorithmic warfare at ISA
Conference
Dr. Lauren Gould and dr. Marijn Hoijtink present their article on information driven and algorithmic warfare at the ISA conference in Montreal