News! RAW researchers Marijn Hoijtink and Lauren Gould have been awarded a Research Project grant by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen (FWO) to trace and investigate the realities of algorithmic warfare – from innovation to deployment and its impact on civilian harm.

As the wars in Gaza and Ukraine show us, the large-scale deployment of algorithms is already significantly impacting how today’s wars are strategized, fought, and lived. We are therefore grateful for this timely opportunity to conduct independent academic research and deliver original data on how algorithmic technology is made and made actionable by an increasingly diverse group of actors (involving, e.g., computer programmers and data scientists, military startups, technology firms), and how it leads to new and compounding forms of civilian harm. By systematically studying the realities of algorithmic warfare, we hope to contribute to the current pressing and, at times, contentious societal debates on the promises and perils of integrating AI in the military domain.

Follow our websites and platformwars.org to learn more about our research and the upcoming vacancy for a PhD researcher on this project.

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