The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems September 3, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / New Technologies / Special Themes / Weapons Ingvild Bode & Ishmael Bhila Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate ...
Artificial intelligence in military decision-making: supporting humans, not replacing them August 29, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Wen Zhou & Anna Rosalie Greipl The desire to develop technological solutions to help militaries in their decision-making processes is not ...
Reinventing the wheel? Three lessons that the AWS debate can learn from existing arms control agreements June 13, 2024 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Laura Bruun For more than a decade, states have met at the UN in Geneva to discuss ...
The road less travelled: ethics in the international regulatory debate on autonomous weapon systems April 25, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Special Themes / Weapons Alexander Blanchard Efforts to address the ethical challenges posed by autonomous weapon systems are growing. In December ...
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 ...
Online violence: real life impacts on women and girls in humanitarian settings January 4, 2024 11 mins read Analysis / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Gender and conflict / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Megan O’Brien Online violence is not contained by the digital sphere – it is killing women and ...
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 ...
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 ...
‘Back to basics’ with a digital twist: humanitarian principles and dilemmas in the digital age February 2, 2023 14 mins read Analysis / Humanitarian Action / Humanitarian Principles / Humanitarian principles in contemporary armed conflict / New Technologies Pierrick Devidal The digital transformation has been a key vector of progress for the humanitarian sector. It ...
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 ...
