
By Lauren Gould

Over the summer of 2025, RAW researchers contributed to public debate and academic discourse on the evolving role of artificial intelligence in warfare, highlighting its legal, ethical, and operational consequences.

Interdisciplinary Workshop on: Who Are ‘Humans’ in Military AI?
On 13 June 2025, the Realities of Algorithmic Warfare programme will co-host an interdisciplinary workshop investigating the ‘human’ in the development, use and impact of AI-driven military technologies.

RAW receives FWO research grant to trace and investigate the realities of algorithmic warfare
Researchers Marijn Hoijtink and Lauren Gould have been awarded a research grant by Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen (FWO) to trace and investigate the realities of algorithmic warfare.

Keynote: Realities of Algorithmic Warfare and Civilian Harm
Dr. Lauren Gould and Jessica Dorsey provide a keynote for the Contestations.AI symposium on the 23rd of October in Helsinki.

Public Lecture: Algorithmic Warfare & Civilian Harm in Gaza
Lauren Gould and Jessica Dorsey will present the latest Concerning War and Conflict lecture on 20 September in Utrecht

Long read: From human to data point to a target of kamikaze drones
Realities of Algorithmic Warfare researchers Marijn Hoijtink, Lauren Gould, and Linde Arentze provide an in-depth analysis of algorithmic warfare and civilian harm in Gaza in De Groene Amsterdammer and Knack.

RAW presents paper on algorithmic warfare and civilian harm at EWIS
Dr. Lauren Gould and Linde Arentze presented a paper on the realities of the IDF’s AI-driven targeting practices in Gaza during the European Workshops in International Studies in Istanbul.

AI is increasing the speed of targeting and scale of civilian harm in Gaza
IRW’s Lauren Gould, Marijn Hoijtink, and Linde Arentze reflect on the realities of algorithmic warfare and civilian harm in Gaza in The Conversation.

Assembling the Future of Warfare: Innovating Swarm Technology within the Dutch Military-Industrial-Commercial Complex
The Dutch MOD and a delegation of high-tech AI startups travelled to Ukraine last week to sign new military contracts. This is the military-industrial-commercial complex that IRW scholars coin in their latest chapter on swarm technology.

Travelling AI Technologies Across Policing and Warfare
Join IRW at the Travelling Technologies Symposium on the 1st of December 2023.