Dear colleagues,
The Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG) and
the Department of Media Studies, University of Bonn invite participants to
an international conference on the topic of artificial intelligence and
future warfare in Berlin from 16-18 October, 2024. More information is also
available at www.hiig.de/events/ai-warfare/.
Registration is now open:
AI and warfare – Investigating the technological and political domains of
current conflicts (Berlin, Germany, 16-18 October 2024)
Global conflicts and challenges to international security are among the
most pressing issues of our time. Artificial intelligence is increasingly
shaping the ways in which warfare is conducted, adding both complications
and urgency to the issues caused by the current major geopolitical shifts.
AI is one of the driving factors of technological change in warfare in
general, with its major effects mainly related to new degrees of complexity
in automation and new forms of human-machine interaction. On the one hand,
this change introduces new capabilities in weapons systems, in particular
in the fields of processing information, generating knowledge and the
automation of decision-making. Most prominently, this results in a
decreasing level of human intervention and control, thereby reshaping the
relationship between human operators and autonomous weapons systems. On the
other hand, AI-related developments do not only concern the kinetic
dimension of warfare but also expand into what military theory calls the
‘information domain’. Shaping and controlling narratives has been an
integral part of conflicts and warfare for a long time, with disinformation
and propaganda campaigns utilising the most recent (media) technologies for
this purpose. The functionality of AI applications will increasingly be
integrated in these efforts, as can already be observed with the
dissemination of manipulated content on social media. AI-based technologies
are also deployed in cyber warfare, which is not limited to the singular
hacking of a system, but rather targeted to directly affect whole digital
military infrastructures or civilian entities in politics, the economy or
research.
The objective of the conference is to explore these domains of modern
warfare in order to develop a more accurate picture of the various effects
of AI in military contexts. Another goal is to broaden the perspective of
the military deployment of AI beyond questions of weapon systems and their
control, by particularly looking at adversarial uses of AI in hybrid forms
of warfare in the information domain. The conference particularly aims to
develop and establish a dialogue between the research on these two domains
that are often explored separately.
The preliminary programme can be found here
.
Participation
If you wish to participate in the conference as a guest, we kindly ask you
to register using the form via www.hiig.de/events/ai-warfare/.
You will receive an instant notification of registration. Please note that
attendance is only possible if you also receive the confirmation of your
registration in a separate mailing, as the number of participants is
limited.
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Wolfgang Schulz | Geschäftsführung: Dr. Karina Preiß
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