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Research funding for ELSA Lab Defence project on military artificial intelligence
1 February 2022The Dutch Research Strategy (NWA) has awarded funding to the ELSA Lab Defence project, in which a coalition of Dutch research organisations and the Asser Institute will develop a future-proof, independent and consultative ecosystem for responsible use of AI in...
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[Online symposium] Decolonisation and human rights - the Dutch case
25 January 2022This week, constitutional law blog Verfassungsblog is hosting an online symposium on ‘Decolonisation and human rights in the Kingdom of the Netherlands’ edited by Asser researcher León Castellanos-Jankiewicz together with PhD researcher Wiebe Hommes (Universit...
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[New blog post] ‘Shifting the narrative: not weapons, but technologies of warfare’
21 January 2022New technologies – especially those with embedded artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms, even if non-weaponised – are significantly transforming contemporary warfare. In a post for ICRC’s Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog, Asser researcher Klaudia Klonowska...
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[New publication] Global Europe Book Series: The informalisation of the EU's external action in the field of migration and asylum
15 January 2022In the very first volume to appear in the new Global Europe book series by T.M.C. Asser Press, editors and Asser researchers Eva Kassoti and Narin Idriz examine the trend whereby the European Union resorts ever more often to informal arrangements and deals wit...
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[Interview] Tomasz Zurek: ‘Soon, autonomous military devices will appear in almost every conflict in the world.'
14 January 2022 By Diva Estanto and Alex RijpmaDr Tomasz Zurek is a researcher at the Asser Instituut, where he works in the DILEMA project to research different technologies in artificial intelligence (AI) in order to create a system that can observe international humanitarian law. Zurek: ‘Soon, autonomou...
