dear nettimers,
in april we, the Working group against armed drones
<https://drohnen.frieden-und-zukunft.de/>and the Computer Professionals
for Peace and Societal Responsibility (FIfF e. V.
<https://blog.fiff.de/>), together with the Information Center on
Militarization (IMI e. V. <https://www.imi-online.de/>) have published a
posistion paper
<https://blog.fiff.de/warnung-senkung-der-hemmschwelle-durch-kuenstliche-intelligenz/>
on direct response to the research from yuval abraham in /+972
<Information Center on Militarization>/ about the AI-powered Decision
Support and Targeting System "Lavender" used by the IDF. you'll find an
english version of our paper in /Berlinger Gazette/ here:
https://berlinergazette.de/against-the-rationalization-of-war/
Since then, an international collaboration with people from peace and AI
research and other fields & disciplines has taken place to deal with the
call to outlaw the practice of ‘targeted killing’ with AI-powered
Decision Support Systems (DSS) as a war crime.
finally we have decided to organize an online hearing on it _"targeted
killing /or /the promise to kill the right one"_ in which you are warmly
invited!
We are delighted to have been able to invite some amazing speakers to
give short talks dealing with the following questions:
* *Even if the protection of the civilian population were the
intention of the warring parties, would such protection be realistic?*
* *Is it possible to maintain a clear separation between human and
machine action and decision-making?*
* *Will humans become a symbolic representation that can be used,
replaced or destroyed?* *And if so, how is this dehumanisation
taking place?*
* *What does scientific research say about human control,
responsibility and ethics in current armed conflicts?*
* *How can decisions based on AI-powered systems be validated and made
transparent enough for the global public to follow?*
* *Options for action:* *What can scientists do?* *How can civil
society and activists get involved?*
The hearing will be held mainly in German. I hope that one or the other
from the list will still be able to attend. if so, plz register here:
https://ippnw.de/bit/tk
you'll find some more info about the event »here
<https://ground-zero.khm.de/targeted-killing>«
*_Programm:_*
*_18.00 Uhr_ – Begrüßung:* Hans-Jörg Kreowski and Christian Heck /(//F/
<https://blog.fiff.de/>/IfF e. V./ <https://blog.fiff.de/> – /Forum
InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung)/
*_18.05 - 18.45 Uhr_ – Moderation:* Angelika Wilmen /(//IPPNW/
<https://www.ippnw.de/startseite.html>/– Internationale Ärztinnen für
die Verhütung des Atomkriegs/Ärztinnen in sozialer Verantwortung)/
* *Der Mythos ‚Targeted Killing‘ - Zur Verantwortlichkeit bei
Einsätzen KI-gestützter Tötungssysteme am Beispiel des Lavender-
Programms*
o Rainer Rehak/(//Weizenbaum-Institut/
<https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/>// //F/
<https://blog.fiff.de/>/IfF e. V./ <https://blog.fiff.de/>/–
Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche
Verantwortung)/
* *'Probably Approximately Correct'. Über algorithmische
Kriegsführung, abduktive Mutmaßungen und automatisiertes >Völkerrecht<*
o Jutta Weber/(//Universität Paderborn/
<https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-medienwissenschaften>//
//MeHuCo/ <https://meaningfulhumancontrol.de/>/- Meaningful
Human Control)/
* *Disruption Network Institute: Investigating the Kill Cloud -
Bringing transparency to the opacity of data-centric warfare (in
English)*
o Tatiana Bazzichelli /(Director and Founder, //D/
<https://www.disruptionlab.org/>/isruption Network Lab/
<https://www.disruptionlab.org/>/)/
* *Q & A*
*_18.45 - 19.25 Uhr_ – Moderation:* Angelika Wilmen /(//IPPNW/
<https://www.ippnw.de/startseite.html>/– Internationale Ärztinnen für
die Verhütung des Atomkriegs/Ärztinnen in sozialer Verantwortung)/
* *Das katastrophale Ende der Ethik im digitalen Krieg*
o Elke Schwarz /(//Queen Mary University London/
<https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/>// //ICRAC/
<https://www.icrac.net/>/– International Commitee for Robot Arms
Control)/
* *targeted killing und der Status ziviler Opfer – ein philosophisches
Problem?*
o Jobst Paul /(//DISS/ <https://www.diss-duisburg.de/>/–
Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung)/
* *Von ferngesteuerten zu autonomen Waffensystemen (AWS) – Gefahren
für Völkerrecht und militärische Stabilität – wie kann man AWS
verbieten?*
o Jürgen Altmann /(//Technische Universität Dortmund/
<https://physik.tu-dortmund.de/>// //ICRAC/
<https://www.icrac.net/>/– International Committee for Robot
Arms Control)/
* *Q & A*
*_19.25 Uhr_ – Schlußwort:* Susanne Grabenhorst /(//IPPNW/
<https://www.ippnw.de/startseite.html>/– Internationale Ärztinnen für
die Verhütung des Atomkriegs/Ärztinnen in sozialer Verantwortung)/
/+++++++++++++++++++++/
Feel welcome!
christian heck/
/
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