On 13 June 2025, Utrecht University’s Governing the Digital Society and Realities of Algorithmic Warfare programme team up with the Asser Institute’s DILEMA project to co-host an interdisciplinary workshop to understand and evaluate who are ‘humans’ involved in—or excluded from—the development and use of AI systems in the military domain. The workshop will be combined with a keynote panel on 12 June, open to students, researchers, practitioners, and the wider public.
This workshop will critically look at the political construction of ‘humans’ involved in—or excluded from—the process of controlling and influencing the development and use of AI-enabled military systems. In a similar vein, the workshop will also look at ‘humans’ who are most affected by the use of such weapon systems as part of ‘human-machine-human interactions’.
There will be a great group of speakers joining us for this event, including Ingvild Bode, Roberto González, Emily Jones, and Rupert Barret-Taylor.
This workshop is an interdisciplinary initiative of Utrecht University, co-organised and financed by the focus area Governing the Digital Society and the Institutions for Open Societies‘ Realities of Algorithmic Warfare project under the platform Contesting Governance, with the Asser Institute’s DILEMA project (Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence) and Utrecht University’s Research Platform on Peace, Security, and Human Rights.
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Registration is possible via this online form.
