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The HuMach project officially began its four-year research journey in August 2024, bringing together a diverse team of experts in military AI governance.
Upcoming Events
HuMach’s upcoming conferences, workshops, and presentations focused on AI and military governance.
Lawful by Design Industry Workshop
24 October 2025
Ingvild Bode will speak at the Lawful By Design Industry Workshop held in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The workshop brings together experts from academia, industry, and government to support International Humanitarian Law (IHL) compliance by bridging the gap between industry technological innovation and defence procurement processes.
The workshop is part of Article 36 Legal’s Lawful by Design (LBD) initiative. LBD aims to create a common standard for the responsible development of military technology based on legal, ethical, engineering, and safety requirements. Ingvild Bode serves as one of the LBD academic ambassadors.
Virtual Coffee Chat, 2025 UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship
21 October 2025
Ingvild Bode and Katherine Chandler will present HuMach research at the coffee chat on human-machine interaction in the context of military AI. The virtual coffee chat is organised by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). It is open to all cohorts of the UNIDIR Women in AI Fellowship, an annual in-person capacity-building exercises for women diplomats on AI.
This coffee chat will examine how various forms of human-machine interaction in relation to lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) and AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS) shape the exercise of human control. The chat will explore how human control, and by extension interpretations of principles of international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law, are potentially transformed by human-machine interaction when using AI in the military domain.
The coffee chat is followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by Shimona Mohan (UNIDIR).
Past Events
Highlights from HuMach’s past events and contributions to key discussions on AI in military contexts.
Presentation, Symposium on Digital Sovereignty, Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters
8-9 October 2025
Ingvild Bode will present HuMach research at the Symposium on Digital Sovereignty organised by the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters. Her presentation is entitled “AI in the military domain: Is there a European way” and will be part of the panel “Will digital sovereignty deliver better security – and for whom?”.
The panel also features presentations by Lene Wacher Lentz (Aalborg University) and Heather Christine Lent (Aalborg University).
As the organisers summarise: “the symposium examines digital sovereignty in critical and contextualised fashion as a bundled technology that encompasses several empirial layers and analytical dimensions. Distinguished international and national scholars will share the latest research, and the dilemmas their results illuminate, just as we offer ample time to discuss national and international policy implications with public and private sector partners”.
EISA PEC 2025
25-29 August 2025
Ingvild Bode and Anna Nadibaidze took part in the European International Studies Association’s Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Bologna, Italy. Anna Nadibaidze presented the draft “Beyond Oversight: The Role of Human Agency as a Regulatory Principle Across Responsible AI Initiatives”, co-authored with Ingvild Bode, at the panel “Algorithmic Violence and Responsibility” and at the early career workshop “Geopolitics of AI Governance: Actors, Norms and Trends”, co-organized by Anna Nadibaidze and Justinas Lingevicius (Vilnius University).