Falling under the radar: the problem of algorithmic bias and military applications of AI

March 14, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Gender and conflict / Human Costs of Cyber Ingvild Bode

Last week, states parties met for the first session of the Group of Governmental Experts ...

Victim/survivor-centeredness, data protection and open-source collection in accountability: lessons from IIIM-Syria

January 9, 2024 9 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Rayyan Ghuma & Birhane Wossen Reta

The extent to which a victim/survivor-centered approach (VSCA) should be incorporated into data protection remains ...

Not child’s play: protecting children’s data in humanitarian AI ecosystems

December 14, 2023 8 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Children in conflict / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Roxana Radu & Eugenia Olliaro

In times of crisis and conflict, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (AI/ML) might ...

Algorithms of war: The use of artificial intelligence in decision making in armed conflict

October 24, 2023 14 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Ruben Stewart & Georgia Hinds

In less than a year, Chat-GPT has become a household name, reflecting astonishing advances in ...

What we don’t understand about digital risks in armed conflict and what to do about it

July 27, 2023 15 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Cyber / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Joelle Rizk & Sean Cordey

The deployment and use of new digital technologies in modern conflicts – from information to ...

Loitering munitions: flagging an urgent need for legally binding rules for autonomy in weapon systems

June 29, 2023 10 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / New Technologies / Weapons Ingvild Bode & Tom F.A. Watts

Earlier this month, a viral story alleged that a US Air Force simulation took place ...

Harnessing the power of Artificial Intelligence to uncover patterns of violence

May 25, 2023 9 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies Fiona Terry & Fabien Dany

This month saw the successful conclusion to a year-long collaboration between the ICRC and the ...

Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare

January 20, 2022 12 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Humanitarian Action / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action / Weapons Klaudia Klonowska

Debates concerning the regulation of choices made by States in conducting hostilities are often limited ...

Legal regulation of AI weapons under international humanitarian law: A Chinese perspective

May 2, 2019 9 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / The most read blog posts in 2019 / Weapons Qiang Li & Dan Xie

Arguably, international humanitarian law (IHL) evolves with the development of emerging technologies. The history of ...

Structural disconnects between algorithmic decision-making and the law

April 25, 2019 8 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Conduct of Hostilities / Detention / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Editor’s note: There are disconnects between how algorithmic decision-making systems work and how law works, according to ...

Safety net or tangled web: Legal reviews of AI in weapons and war-fighting

April 18, 2019 11 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Weapons Netta Goussac

Editor’s note: For those interested in the topic of legal reviews of weapons, it is ...

The viability of data-reliant predictive systems in armed conflict detention

April 8, 2019 10 mins read Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Detention / Law and Conflict / New Technologies Tess Bridgeman

Editor’s note: In this post, Tess Bridgeman continues the discussion on detention and the potential use of ...