Meaningful Human Control: the social sciences of automated weapon systems
Professor Lucy Suchman
Wednesday October 31st 2018 1.15-3.00pm, followed by a Reception.
Universitetsklubben, Linköping University
The Tema T Exchange is a high profile public event, held annually to address
issues of public concern. We invite scholars of international renown to lead
us in debate. Past years have featured Don Ihde, Thomas Hylland Eriksen and
Annemarie Molhttps://liu.se/en/research/tema-t-exchange
.The occasion is designed to
maximise productive exchange and debate, by asking our invitee not to give a
set public lecture, but instead to respond to a series of questions and
comments submitted by a panel of colleagues.
The increased use of automated weapon systems has become an issue of
considerable public unease. The question of their “meaningful human
control” is debated at the UN. Many aspects of our own local and national
context are germane: Sweden is militarily neutral yet has a thriving arms
export industry; Linköping is home to Saab the weapons manufacturer; and
there are enduring issues in a largely technoscience university like
Linköping as to the role and importance of social sciences and humanities. So
it is especially appropriate that we ask how social sciences can inform our
understanding of automated weapon systems.
To discuss these issues we are delighted to welcome Professor Lucy Suchman
(Lancaster University) as our distinguished guest for the Tema T Exchange
2018.
Lucy is an internationally renowned scholar, working within the field of
feminist science and technology studies, focused on technological imaginaries
and the material practices of technology design, particularly developments at
the interface of bodies and machines. It is this longstanding critical
engagement with the field of human-computer interaction that she has recently
extended to contemporary warfighting. She was a leading figure in the recent
campaign against Google providing AI support to a US military programme aimed
at automating the analysis of images from drone surveillance footage [see Op
Ed piece in the Guardian
]
All Welcome
For information: steve.woolgar@liu.se
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