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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.
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HuMach’s upcoming conferences, workshops, and presentations focused on AI and military governance.
Past Events
Highlights from HuMach’s past events and contributions to key discussions on AI in military contexts.
Workshop at the United Nations
11 July 2025
Ingvild Bode and Katherine Chandler presented HuMach research at the workshop “Re-Thinking Human-Machine Interaction and AI in the Military Domain”, which took place at the United Nations in Geneva. The workshop was organised by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), where Ingvild Bode and Katherine Chandler completed a fellowship in July 2025.
The workshop featured a presentation where Ingvild Bode and Katherine Chandler 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 presentation was followed by discussant comments from Heidi Kandiel (ICRC) and Eric Mongelard (OHCHR), as well as Q&A with the audience.
Podcast on Responsible AI
3 July 2025
Anna Nadibaidze was a guest on the Center for War Studies’ podcast, the WarPod. In this episode, Anna Nadibaidze explains the concept of Responsible AI, highlights critiques, and looks to the future of governing AI in the military domain as well as her own research as part of the HuMach project.
Interdisciplinary workshop at Utrecht University
12-13 June 2025
Ingvild Bode took part in the interdisciplinary workshop Who Are ‘Humans’ in Military AI?, organised by Utrecht University and the Asser Institute. The workshop brought together experts from various disciplines to examine the roles, responsibilities, and ethical implications of human involvement in military AI.
Ingvild Bode delivered the keynote speech “Human-Machine Interaction and the Exercise of Human Agency in the Military Domain”. She also presented a paper entitled “Control and Human Agency in the Debate on Military Applications of AI: The Politics of Concepts”, co-authored with Anna Nadibaidze and Alexander Blanchard (Senior Researcher at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute).