The Realities of Autonomous Weapons

The realities of autonomous weapons: Hedging a hybrid space of fact and fiction - Jascha Bareis & Thomas Christian Baechle





I. Narratives and Theories





ARTWORK. <<The Unreachable Myth: Killing unknown victims with insensible means by unidentified perpetrators for unapparent reason>> By Jinyu Wang, 2023


The AI-Lure of US Airpower: Imaginaries of disruption in the pursuit of technological superiority since the early 20th century - Jennifer Rooke


From Maschinenmensch to Robot Bubs: Female-presenting autonomous weapons systems in live-action films from 1927-2022 - Rebecca Jones


Autonomous weapons in fiction and the fiction of autonomous weapons - Teresa Heffernan


From the reel to the real: Narratives of weaponized artificial intelligence technologies in India - Ingvild Bode & Shimona Mohan





II. Technologies and Materialities





ARTWORK. <<Transformator>>. By Peter Behrbohm, since 2013


Il/legal war: Expanding the frame of meaningful human control from military operations to democratic governance - Lucy Suchman


From network-centric warfare to autonomous warfighting networks: Recontextualising autonomous weapons systems imaginaries - Christoph Ernst


Governing autonomies: Imagining responsible AI in the European armament project 'Future Combat Air System' - Jens Haelterlein


New media, new enemies: The emergence of automated weapons in counterterrorism - Jeremy Packer and Joshua Reeves





III. Politics and Ethics





ARTWORK. <<XCI|XCIX, (91|99)>> By Johannes Weilandt, 2023


Engineering moral failure? The challenges of algorithmic ethics for lethal autonomous weapon systems - Elke Schwarz


Legitimizing and contesting Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems in Japan: A multi-layered analysis of public discourse - Bernhard Seidl


The reality of (past) Future Air Combat Systems: Climate wars, carbon costs and rare earth elements - Jutta Weber


Showcasing power, performing responsibility? Introducing military AI discourses in China - Thomas Christian Baechle and Xiran Liu