2022 Research Highlights and Overview

Published 23 January 2023

In 2022, the DILEMA Project team has been again very active in publishing research and presenting findings at academic and policy events. We have also organised numerous events both for specialised and general audiences. Below are a few highlights of the year, as well as a full overview of publications, presentations, and events.

 

Highlights

  • Tomasz Zurek co-authored several papers which explore how and to which extent military AI technologies can be designed and programmed in a way that integrates norms of international humanitarian law.
  • The DILEMA Project partnered with the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW) in the organisation of the 5th ‘Silent Leges Inter Arma ?’ Conference in Bruges in September. We convened two panels during the conference, on ‘War Algorithms: Between Review and Implementation’ and on ‘Reflections on the Human in International Humanitarian Law & Military Applications of AI’.
  • As part of the Hague Conference on Responsible AI held in the Peace Palace in May, the DILEMA team organised a panel discussion on ‘The Interface of Ethical and Legal Principles on (Military) AI: Towards Mutually Strengthening Frameworks’.

 

Full List of Publications in 2022

  • Magdalena Pacholska, ‘Military Artificial Intelligence and the Principle of Distinction: A State Responsibility Perspective’, Israel Law Review (2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek and Adam Wyner, ‘Towards a Formal Framework for Motivated Argumentation and the Roots of Conflict’, Proceedings of the 22nd Workshop on Computational Models of Natural Argument (CMNA), CEUR-WS Vol. 3205, pp. 39-50 (2022)
  • Berenice Boutin and Taylor Woodcock, ‘Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control:  A Legal Perspective’, in: Robin Geiß and Henning Lahmann (eds.), Research Handbook on Warfare and Artificial Intelligence (forthcoming), available on SSRN (2022)
  • Jonathan Kwik, Tomasz Zurek, and Tom van Engers, ‘Designing International Humanitarian Law into Military Autonomous Devices’, available on SSRN (2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek, Taylor Woodcock, Magdalena Pacholska, and Tom van Engers, ‘Computational Modelling of the Proportionality Analysis under International Humanitarian Law for Military Decision-Support Systems’, Working Paper, available on SSRN (2022)

 

Full List of Events in 2022

 

Full List of Presentations in 2022

  • Mostafa Mohajeriparizi, Jonathan Kwik, Tomasz Zurek and Tom van Engers, ‘Can a Military Autonomous Device Follow International Humanitarian Law?’, JURIX 2022 Conference, Saarbrucken (15-16 December 2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek and Adam Wyner, ‘Values, Justifications, and Consortia’, AICOL 2022 Workshop (AI and Complexity of Law), Saarbrucken (14 December 2022)
  • Klaudia Klonowska, ‘The Means of Warfare and their Masters: Human-Centrism in the Regulation of Emerging Technologies of Warfare’, Workshop: Military Imaginaries of AI and the Anthropocene, Uppsala University (8 December 2022)
  • Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Dynamic Ontologies for AI Systems to Support Moral and Legal Decision Making’, ESDiT2022 Conference, Oegstgeest (7 October 2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek and Dorota Stachura-Zurek, ‘Virtue Ethics and Autonomous Devices’, ESDiT2022 Conference, Oegstgeest (6 October 2022)
  • Taylor Woodcock, ‘The Human Dimension of International Law: Exploring the Relationship Between IHL and the Exercise of Human Agency’, Asser Institute Research Lab (14 September 2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek and Adam Wyner, ‘Towards a Formal Framework for Motivated Argumentation and the Roots of Conflict’, CS-Theory Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, United Kingdom (9 September 2022)
  • Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Activity Realism: A Queer Philosophy of Objects’, University of Twente Philosophy Colloquium, University of Twente (8 September 2022)
  • Sadjad Soltanzadeh and Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Agency and the Regulation of Socio-Technical Systems’, Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Interest Group on Social Sciences and International Law, Pre-Conference Workshop on ‘Connecting Social Practices to Legal Outcomes’, Utrecht (1 September 2022)
  • Klaudia Klonowska and Tasniem Anwar, ‘The Use of Behavioural Pattern Recognition in Classifying Terrorists: Overinclusion of Digital Identities’, Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Interest Group on International Law and Technology, Pre-Conference Workshop on ‘Algorithmic and Technological Modes of In-/Exclusion – International Legal Method and Critique’, Utrecht (31 August 2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek, ‘Decision-Making in Autonomous Vehicles and Scenario Testing using Multi-Agent Systems’, Computational Normative Systems Workshop, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (26 August 2022)
  • Taylor Woodcock, ‘Algorithmically-Supported Targeting Decisions, International Humanitarian Law and Aspects of Human Agency’, Autonorms Workshop on The Algorithmic Turn in Security and Warfare, Odense, Denmark (30 May 2022)
  • Jonathan Kwik, Tomasz Zurek, and Tom van Engers, ‘Designing International Humanitarian Law into Military Autonomous Devices’, International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE 2022), co-located with AAMAS 2022 (10 May 2022)
  • Klaudia Klonowska and Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Agents as Impactful Entities: Redesigning a Technologically Disrupted Concept’, ESDiT Workshop on Conceptual Engineering and Socially Disruptive Technologies (1 April 2022)
  • Tomasz Zurek, ‘Applying Ethics to Autonomous Agents’, Asser Institute Research Lab (23 March 2022)
  • Klaudia Klonowska and Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Agents as Impactful Entities: Redesigning a Technologically Disrupted Concept’, Asser Institute Research Lab (2 March 2022)

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