The RAW program continues to highlight critical research on the ethical, legal, and political dimensions of emerging military technologies. Recent publications by team members Marijn Hoijtink, Jessica Dorsey and Martine Jaarsma offer timely insights into how artificial intelligence is reshaping the conduct and governance of war.
In her latest contribution to Minds and Machines, Marijn Hoijtink explores how AI-driven warfare is sustained by myth-making, experimentation, and opaque state-corporate alliances. Tracing a historical lineage from colonial campaigns to the tech-mediated occupation of Palestine, Hoijtink argues that war is increasingly framed as a laboratory for innovation. This logic, she warns, blurs the boundaries between war and peace, turning conflict into a perpetual testing ground for new technologies.
In a forthcoming academic article co-authored with legal scholar Marta Bo, Jessica Dorsey examines the impact of AI-enabled decision-support systems (AI-DSS) on human judgment and compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL). The paper highlights underexplored risks such as automation bias, deskilling, and the erosion of independent judgment, and calls for transparent, interdisciplinary governance frameworks to address these challenges.
In a recent blog post, Marijn Hoijtink and Martine Jaarsma reflect on the role of private companies in designing and deploying lethal technologies. They argue that the corporatization of warfare demands new forms of scrutiny and accountability, especially as tech firms increasingly shape the battlefield through algorithmic systems.
