HuMach

Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into military decision-making raises foundational challenges to the exercise of human agency in warfare.

We witness a series of complex practices of human-machine interaction. But current scholarship in International Relations and adjacent social sciences does not yet capture this distributed agency or its consequences for warfare.

To address this, HuMach offers novel analytical conceptualizations of human-machine interaction in warfare, investigates how human-machine interaction affects the deliberative space that can be exercised by humans in warfare, and identifies associated governance demands.

Using practices as a sensitising concept, HuMach examines human-machine interaction empirically by drawing on the Responsible AI agenda that is gaining ground in some Western states.