The #KillCloud chapter of our 'Whistleblowing for Change' book is now available in German! 📚📖
Read & share: https://disruptionlab.org/book#de
The #KillCloud chapter of our 'Whistleblowing for Change' book is now available in German! 📚📖
Read & share: https://disruptionlab.org/book#de
"Und immer mehr Tech-Unternehmen sind daran beteiligt, Waffensysteme zu entwickeln, aber sie werden nicht als Waffenhändler gesehen. Dabei trägt #Microsoft ebenso zu Militärtechnologie bei wie #Raytheon. #Google ist genauso ein Militärdienstleister wie Anduril oder Boeing."
Es ist an uns, Verbindungen zu #Bigtech und der #Killcloud zu kappen. #optoutproject
https://netzpolitik.org/2025/drohnenprogramm-whistleblowerin-wie-ein-internet-der-hoellischen-dinge/
https://optoutproject.net
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.
"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
In this interview, Lisa Ling, former technician in the U.S. drone program, talks about the invisible #KillCloud behind the drones and how the same technology is reflected in everyday office life and in #war. Read the interview by Max Freitag: https://netzpolitik.org/2025/drohnenprogramm-whistleblowerin-wie-ein-internet-der-hoellischen-dinge/#netzpolitik-pw.
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.
FĂĽr ihre neue #CombatCloud hat sich die #Bundeswehr jetzt fĂĽr #Google entschieden:
https://defence-network.com/die-bundeswehr-geht-in-die-google-cloud
Zu den Gründen heißt es, dass andere Konzerne (etwa Amazon, die in den USA den Zuschlag für die #KillCloud erhielten) keine On-Premises-Lösungen anbieten.
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.
#KillCloud auch in Deutschland:
Die #Bundeswehr hat mit der Firma BWI einen Vertrag über Entwicklung und Lieferung von "verlegefähigen, modular aufgebauten sowie skalierbaren Rechenzentren abgeschlossen".
https://esut.de/2024/12/meldungen/55789/verlegefaehige-rechenzentren-fuer-german-mission-network/
"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