Project Member Realities of Algorithmic Warfare and Associate Professor in International Relations
Dr. Marijn Hoijtink is Research Professor (Associate Professor) of International Relations at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on military applications of artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular interest in how these technologies shape how warfare is thought, fought, and lived. She leads the PLATFORM WARS project, funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO), through which she and her team study the role of the high-technology industry in modern warfare.
Jessica Dorsey and dr. Marijn Hoijtink respond in the newspapers Trouw and DeMorgen to Google’s newly announced ethical AI guidelines on weapons and surveillance.
Researchers Marijn Hoijtink and Lauren Gould have been awarded a research grant by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) to trace and investigate the realities of algorithmic warfare.
RAW’s Jessica Dorsey will facilitate the 'Realities of Algorithmic Warfare: Innovation, Impact, Regulation' breakout session during the REAIM Summit in Seoul.
The Dutch MOD and a delegation of high-tech AI startups travelled to Ukraine last week to sign new military contracts. This is the military-industrial-commercial complex that IRW scholars coin in their latest chapter on swarm technology.