Berlin’s vital hub engaging in the most urgent topics through research and critical discourse – Disruption Network Lab – presents their upcoming conference: Investigating The Kill Cloud – Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI.

The conference  brings together the research fellows of the Disruption Network Institute and international experts investigating the impact of artificial intelligence on new technologies of war, automated weapons and networked warfare to investigate the following questions and much more:
– How does the inclusion of artificial intelligence and autonomy impact networked warfare?
– What are the experiences/knowledge of whistleblowers which undermine networked warfare’s legality, morality, and ethics?
– What challenges does global connectivity, AI, and connected weaponry bring to democracy, human rights and the civil society?
– How does algorithmic warfare based on data mining and machine learning effect targeting killing policy?
– How is information warfare fueled by social media and cellphone location-tracking surveillance?
– How is artistic practice able to produce evidence in the field of information warfare?

This three day event involves the participation of researchers in the field of AI and warfare and will present a panel and an artistic talk in cooperation with the BMBF project ‘Swarm Technologies. Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems’, Paderborn University – which is the coordinator of the research network ‘Meaningful Human Control: Autonomous Weapons Systems between Regulation and Reflection (MeHuCo).

In the 2023-2024 fellowship round, investigations have been carried out by four affiliated fellows, namely Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US Air Force Drone Surveillance Programme, US), Jack Poulson (Executive Director, Tech Inquiry, US), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech, UK), and Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher, Professor of Networks, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, ES/DE). They will present the results of their research in a keynote panel moderated by Tatiana Bazzichelli (Director, Disruption Network Institute, Artistic Director, Disruption Network Lab, IT/DE).