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11 November 2025

Anna Nadibaidze presented HuMach research during an open research seminar at the Department of International and Operational Law, Swedish Defence University, Stockholm. In this presentation, Anna Nadibaidze examined existing understandings of human oversight across responsible AI frameworks, based on a mapping and content analysis of global and regional initiatives applying to military applications of AI. Most of the understandings of human oversight portray the human role as largely distinct and independent from and not significantly affected by using and interacting with AI. Anna Nadibaidze argued that these conceptualisations of human oversight insufficiently account for the dynamics of human-machine interaction, especially the impact of using AI systems on the exercise of human agency.

21 October 2025

Ingvild Bode and Katherine Chandler presented the HuMach research at the coffee chat on human-machine interaction in the context of military AI. The virtual coffee chat was organized by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). It was 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 examined 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 explored 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 was followed by a Q&A with the audience, moderated by Shimona Mohan (UNIDIR). 

8-9 October 2025

Ingvild Bode presented the HuMach research at the Symposium on Digital Sovereignty organised by the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters. Her presentation was 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 featured 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”.