DisruptionNetworkLabToday we have private companies involved in war to target individuals or assist states in doing so. Watch Khalil Dewan discuss the privatisation of war at the #KillCloud conference in Berlin last November: https://dnlb.org/34video.
"Our task is to redirect resources into projects of descalation and demilitarisation in the name of social justice and planetary security for all."
Listen to Lucy Suchman moderating the panel "Disarming the Kill Cloud" during our conference "Investigating the Kill Cloud" last November in #Berlin & online: https://dnlb.org/34video
What is happening in Palestine concerns us all because it paves the way for the spread of smart violence elsewhere. Listen to Matt Mahmoudi at the Investigating the #KillCloud conference.
Watch the full video here: https://dnlb.org/34video.
"... But the responsibility only stays with the humans."
Listen to Jutta Weber moderating the panel "Disarming the Kill Cloud".
Watch the full video here: https://buff.ly/3PfyFJ4.
Ishmael Bhila’s review of the Investigating The #KillCloud conference, published in the Journal of Digital War. A must-read piece that condenses the conference and makes it accessible to the wider audience: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s42984-025-00101-x.
Investigating the kill cloud: information warfare, autonomous weapons & AI - Digital War
The “kill chain”—involving the analysis of data by human users of military technologies, the understanding of that data, and human decisions—has fast been replaced by the “kill cloud” that necessitates, allows, and exacerbates increased thirst for domination, violence against distant populations, and a culture of experimentation with human lives. This commentary reports an interdisciplinary discussion organised by the Disruption Network Lab that brought together whistleblowers, artists, and experts investigating the impact of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies on networked warfare. Exposing the problematics of networked warfare and the kill cloud, their colonial overtones, effects on human subjects in real life, erroneous scientific rationalities, and the (business) practices and logics that enable this algorithmic machinery of violence. The conference took place from the 29th of November to the 1st of December 2024 at the Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin, Germany.
Journalist Sophia Goodfriend presents +972 magazine's reporting showing that Israel used AI targeting systems to maximise damage in Gaza.
Watch the full video here: https://buff.ly/3PfyFJ4
"...And yet the real frontier of AI is not just the data but connecting to the very structures underneath to generate that data."
Listen to the whole speech of Thomas Drake discussing the danger of #AI at Investigating the #KillCloud conference: https://buff.ly/3PfyFJ4
#DNL34
The conference "Investigating the Kill Cloud", held last November in Berlin, looked at IT companies and their contributions to military programs. The aim was to shed light on the ethical problems associated with the current use of AI and other technology.
Read the full article on neues deutschland:
https://buff.ly/4h3pGa8
Matt Mahmoudi (Researcher & Advisor on AI & Human Rights) discusses how #Palestine is being instrumentalized for the development of vast architectures of #surveillance and control. Watch the full panel here: https://buff.ly/3PfyFJ4.
Jennifer Menninger and Ishmael Bhila, members of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign, in this article document the proceedings of the “Investigating the Kill Cloud” Conference.
In doing so, they map out avenues for multistakeholder and multidisciplinary collaboration to address the dehumanising effects of the #killcloud.
To read the full article: https://stopkillerrobots.medium.com/investigating-the-kill-cloud-a-conference-on-information-warfare-autonomous-weapons-and-ai-6962c0fc3676
