[Commlist] “AI and warfare” conference

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 warfarein Berlin from 16-18 October, 2024. More information 
is also available atwww.hiig.de/events/ai-warfare/ 
<http://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 
<https://www.hiig.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/EXTERN-Conference-Programme-AI-Warfare.pdf>.

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/ 
<http://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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