Today 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.
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"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.
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
"Thanks to whistleblowers, we found out how the government undercounted, minimized or covered up civilian deaths by categorizing them as collateral damage."
Watch Jesselyn Radack speaking about whistleblowers and the right for citizens to know the truth and make governments accountable: https://buff.ly/3PfyFJ4.
Watch Joana Moll's lecture performance on the ubiquity of #cookies and the advertising technology industry (#AdTech) given at the Investigating the #KillCloud conference: https://buff.ly/4fnSBnS.
"The experience was that the sky instantly collapsed into an oppressive lid over our heads."
Watch "Visualising Threats" a dialog between Anthony Downey and Shona Illingworth on supporting the #AirspaceTribunal for the right to live without physical or psychological threat from above.
Watch the video here: https://buff.ly/4iFlTBq
The panel "Disarming the #KillCloud" in cooperation with the BMBF* project Swarm Technologies. Control and Autonomy in Complex Weapons Systems’, Paderborn University, examines the proliferation of #military #AI-driven human-machine assemblages and their highly problematic sociotechnical practices.
Watch the panel here: https://buff.ly/4iziQdO.
In their introduction to the Investigating the #KillCloud conference, Jesselyn Radack and Thomas Drake discuss the key role of whistleblowers in the narrative of #AI and #warfare.
Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/live/YNgjdU1qMIQ?si=QHQ2mU0S7JkrDgN0&t=58.
#DNL34
Watch the 4 #DisruptionNetworkInstitute Fellows, Lisa Ling, Joana Moll, Naomi Colvin and Jack Poulson, present their findings after 15 months of research into the #KillCloud: the networked #warfare #industrialmilitarycomplex that affects us all: https://www.youtube.com/live/kYEWVNIatCY.
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#Lawfare, #drone targeting, norm contestation, #resistance.
These are just few of the topics discussed during the panel "Automated #Surveillance & Targeted Killing in #Gaza" at the Investigating the #KillCloud conference.
Re-watch the panel here: https://youtube.com/live/X3E6J9wTE3c?feature=shared&t=572
Solid talks, panels that gave chills to the audience, so much to do to to put pressure on governments to stop the madness of warfare.
Thanks to the all the speakers and to our always engaged and sharp audience for joining us at the Investigating the #KillCloud conference.
Check all the talks if you missed it: https://dnlb.org/34.
Streaming starting NOW!
Panel: "Automated Surveillance & Targeted Killing in Gaza" with Matt Mahmoudi, Sophia Goodfriend, Khalil Dewan. Moderated by Matthias Monroy.
https://www.youtube.com/live/X3E6J9wTE3c?si=LpUuf9Ikc-o7Z-6i
Streaming starting NOW!
Conversation "Visualising Threat", with Shona Illingworth and Anthony Downey.
https://www.youtube.com/live/YIvz9cbAvMw?si=vjPPRzYS4UoYPVyL
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