Medlir and Chris are joined by Ingvild Bode for a wide ranging conversation on military automation, accountability and the future (and present) of armed conflict.Links:AutoNorms Weaponised Artificial Intelligence, Norms, and Order Worried about the autonomous weapons of the future? Look at what’s already gone wrongAI has already been weaponised – and it shows why we should ban 'killer robots'Send us a text

Medlir is joined by Carrie McDougall of the Melbourne Law School and an expert in international criminal law.  They discuss prospects for a possible international tribunal to prosecute the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, and to consider the question of accountability and Autonomous Weapons Systems.Links:Autonomous Weapon Systems and Accountability: Putting the Cart before the HorseThe Case for Creating an International Tribunal to Prosecute the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine by by Oona A. HathawayForging a Cooperative Relationship Between Int’l Crim. Court and a Special Tribunal for Aggression Against Ukraine by Ambassador David SchefferSend us a text

In this episode, Medlir and Chris discuss the question of AI sentience and Lambda with Young Diogenes.Links:https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2022/03/25/what-is-a-transformer-model/https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/what-is-lamda-and-what-does-it-want-688632134489https://cajundiscordian.medium.com/is-lamda-sentient-an-interview-ea64d916d917https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=iBXyKJwqh20&ab_channel=2ago1992https://www.wired.com/story/lamda-sentient-ai-bias-google-blake-lemoine/https://futurism.com/chatbot-abusehttps://www.inputmag.com/features/chatbots-and-the-loneliness-epidemic-when-ai-harmony-realdoll-replika-is-more-than-just-a-friendhttps://metro.co.uk/2020/12/11/how-virtual-love-with-chatbots-is-filling-the-romance-void-for-lonely-singles-13735456/https://news.sky.com/story/i-fell-in-love-with-my-ai-girlfriend-and-it-saved-my-marriage-12548082https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mar.21480Send us a text

Chris and Medlir welcome Zeyi Yang of MIT Technology Review to the show for a wide ranging discussion from Pokemon to predictive policing and digital authoritarianism to China’s urban Metascapes.Links:https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/06/22/1054586/hikvision-worlds-biggest-surveillance-company/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/25/technology/china-surveillance-police.html?referringSource=articleSharehttps://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Trade-war/U.S.-China-tensions-knock-96-off-of-bilateral-tech-investmentSend us a text

Chris and Medlir are joined Dr. Jelena Cupac, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Global Governance Research Unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany, to discuss her work on patriarchy, democracy, and AI ethics.Links:Engines of Patriarchy: Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Times of Illiberal Backlash PoliticsBacklash advocacy and NGO polarization over women's rights in the United NationsSend us a text

Chris discusses with Asser Institute's Taylor Woodcock  the implications of the development and use of military applications of AI for the international legal obligations applicable in armed conflict under international humanitarian law and international human rights law.Links:Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control: A Legal Perspective | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4109202Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons | https://www.humanrightshere.com/post/doctoralLethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons | https://theglobal.blog/2019/05/28/lethal-autonomous-weapons-war-crimes-and-the-convention-on-conventional-weapons/Send us a text

In this episode Medlir and Chris have a chat with Young Diogenes about the use of AI in the latest Top Gun movie, and then explore the boundaries, risks, and opportunities of human-AI collaboration going forward, in a wide ranging discussion that also looks at the question of ‘tamagotchi’ children.Links:Hear Val Kilmer's AI voice – SonanticVal Kilmer’s daughter says watching dad film ‘Maverick’ was ‘extraordinary’IMDBVal Kilmer's Dialogue in "Top Gun: Maverick" Was Read By AI Because He Can't Speak AnymoreSend us a text

In this episode Medlir and Chris speak with the two of the authors of a Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) Georgetown report on AI cooperation among members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, more commonly known as the Quad.LinksQuad AI | Assessing AI-related Collaboration between the United States, Australia, India, and JapanThe Future of the Quad’s Technology Cooperation Hangs in the BalanceSend us a text

Medlir and Chris discuss the distinction between analogue and digital approaches to IR and the impact of digital innovations in peace-building. They also ask whether digital peace is any more secure and less fragile than the analog one. Meanwhile Young Diogenes engages with Derek Parfit's 'hinge of history' argument and, unsurprisingly, finds extant interpretations lacking.Links:The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace FormationPeace-making: new technologies are no panaceaCan history be used to predict the future? Some experts say it canSend us a text

Medlir and Chris discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the future of global trade, data colonialism and prospects for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework with guest Dan Ciuriak, while Young Diogenes talks up AI’s potential to transform manufacturing ("Yes, yes, I understand 'Manufacturing' won't seem all that exciting to some of you. Ha. " --YD) Links:Unfree Flow with No Trust | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/unfree-flow-with-no-trust-the-implications-of-geoeconomics-and-geopolitics-for-data-and-digital-trade/Into the Post-Pandemic | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/into-the-post-pandemic-on-the-new-world-orders-and-their-would-be-architects/Send us a text