Full Description
This open access book explores the multifaceted implications of military AI across a broad spectrum of applications, including autonomous weapon systems, decision-support technologies, and AI-augmented human capabilities. Building on the work of the DILEMA project on Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence, this book critically examines how AI reshapes core concepts such as agency, responsibility, and control. It identifies the need for innovative governance mechanisms, ethically-informed technical design, robust frameworks for legal compliance and accountability, and clearly articulated normative limitations to the use of AI.
By bridging disciplines such as international law, philosophy of technology, science and technology studies, cognitive and behavioural science, international relations, systems engineering, and computer science, this volume offers an essential contribution to understanding how AI is reconfiguring the principles and practices of modern warfare. Designed for scholars, policymakers, military professionals, and technologists, this book provides cutting-edge insights into the promises and perils of military AI and proposes pathways for responsible integration of these transformative technologies.
Bérénice Boutin is affiliated to the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in the Hague, The Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Taylor Kate Woodcock is affiliated to the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in the Hague, The Netherlands and the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Sadjad Soltanzadeh is affiliated to the Philosophy Department of the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands.
Contents
Part I. Theoretical and Conceptual Foundations.- The DILEMA Project: Bridging Disciplines to Address Military AI Challenges.- Normative Reasoning and Military AI: DILEMA's Dilemmas.- Rhetoric and Regulation: The (Limits of) Human/AI Comparison in Legal Debates on Military AI.- Part II. Legal and Ethical Challenges.- The Use of Autonomous Cyber Capabilities in Armed Conflict: Legal Appraisal from a Targeting Law Perspective.- ChatGPT for the Military? Large Language Models in the Military Domain and the Role of Article 36 Weapons Reviews.- The AI-Augmented Super Soldier: An Interface-Based Approach to the Cognition of Enhanced Humans.- Artificial Decision-Making on Life-or-Death: Moral-Psychological Implications for Combatants with Increasing Autonomy in Weapon Systems.- Part III. Technical Approaches.- Context-Driven Analysis for AI-Enhanced Solutions: Extracting Requirements for System Development and Operational Use.- Iterative Assessment for Military Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems.- The Computational Representation of Rules of International Humanitarian Law in Military Autonomous Devices: Issues, Problems, and Controversies.- Part IV. Governance and Accountability.- What's at the Core? The Quintessential Role of Responsibility in International Governance of Military Artificial Intelligence.- This is my Last Resort': Approaches to Overcome the Stalemate in Autonomous Weapons Regulation Through National Legislation and Industry Self-Regulation.- Between Negligence and Malfunction: How to Address Responsibility for AI Failures.
