Meet our
Team
Advancing Knowledge on AI and Distributed Agency in Warfare
HuMach Researchers
Learn about the HuMach team members, their work, and their roles in the research project.
Professor Ingvild Bode
Principal Investigator
Professor Ingvild Bode
Principal Investigator
Dr Ingvild Bode is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for War Studies at the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark. Previously she was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury (2015-2020) and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) International Research Fellow (postdoc) with joined affiliation at United Nations University and the University of Tokyo (2013-2015).
Ingvild’s research agenda covers the area of peace and security, with a theoretical focus on integrating practice theories and Science and Technology Studies (STS). She is principally interested in analysing processes of policy and normative change, especially in the areas of Artificial Intelligence in the military domain, the use of force, AI governance, United Nations peacekeeping, and more general dynamics of the UN Security Council.
Ingvild has published extensively in these areas, including in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations (several times), Review of International Studies, Ethics and Information Technology, Global Governance, and International Studies Review. Her latest book is Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Norms (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2022, with Hendrik Huelss).
HuMach Focus
Within the HuMach project, Ingvild Bode uses theorisations of distributed agency from Science and Technology Studies to better understand how humans interact with AI technologies (AIT) in the military domain. She also engages with military personnel in the US (with Kate Chandler) and the UK (with Anisa Heritage) to ascertain their experiences of interacting with AIT and how this shapes their decision-making space. Finally, she reflects on human-machine interaction as a governance challenge in the military domain (with Denise Garcia).
Areas of Expertise
Norm Emergence and Change | Use of Force Norms | Global Governance of AI in the Military Domain | Critical Study of Technologies
Dr Anna Nadibaidze
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Anna Nadibaidze
Postdoctoral Researcher
Dr Anna Nadibaidze is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for War Studies and the Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark. She is also a researcher for the European Research Council funded AutoNorms and AutoPractices projects based at the CWS.
Anna holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Southern Denmark. Her research explores, among other issues, AI technologies in international relations and security, as well as governance and arms control of AI in the military domain. Her work has been published in journals such as Contemporary Security Policy, Ethics and Information Technology, and Journal of International Relations and Development.
HuMach Focus
Within the HuMach project, Anna Nadibaidze maps, unpacks, and assesses the Responsible AI agenda in the military domain. She does so by engaging in a narrative praxiography and examining both the historical origins and current policy practices of military applications of AI, automation, and autonomy. Her empirical focus is on Switzerland, the UK, and the US.
Areas of Expertise
Global Governance of AI in the Military Domain | Critical Study of Technologies | Identity and Status in International Relations | Discourse and Narrative Analysis
Professor Katherine Chandler
Co-Investigator
Professor Katherine Chandler
Co-Investigator
Dr Katherine Chandler is the director of the Culture and Politics major in the School of Foreign Service and an associate professor at Georgetown University. She received her PhD in Rhetoric with a DE in New Media from the University of California, Berkeley in 2014. Her first book, Unmanning: How Humans, Machines, and Media Produce Drone Warfare (Rutgers UP, 2020), studies how language and images construct the conditions for the denial of human action, examining failed drone experiments carried out by the US military from 1936-1992. She analyzes how the erasure of human action ties to histories of Othering and dissociates politics and technology. Her new research takes up the concept of ‘unmanning’ to study how military applications of artificial intelligence should address forms of human difference. This research was published by the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research in the report Does Military AI Have Gender? Understanding Bias and Promoting Ethical Approaches in Military Applications of AI.
She has published articles in Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience; Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism and Development; and Social Studies of Science, as well as chapters in the anthologies Life in the Age of Drone Warfare (Duke UP, 2017) and The Good Robot: Why Technology Needs Feminism (Bloomsbury, 2024).
HuMach Focus
In the HuMach project, Katherine Chandler will examine how deliberation is configured within human and machine systems used in military contexts. What kind of intelligence is organized through these connections? What are their possibilities and limits? Her research asks how these socio-technical parameters interact with international law and the norms associated with the use of force, examining how human differences are implicit in these frameworks.
Areas of Expertise
Feminist Science and Technology Studies | Critical Military Studies | Critical Theory | Gender and Artificial Intelligence | Drone Aircraft
Professor Denise Garcia
Co-Investigator
Professor Denise Garcia
Co-Investigator
Denise Garcia is a Professor at Northeastern University, a founding faculty member of its Experiential Robotics Institute, and recently appointed to the Global Commission on Responsible Artificial Intelligence in the Military. Her latest book is The AI Military Race: Common Good Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, Oxford University Press. She was formerly a member of the International Panel for the Regulation of Autonomous Weapons (2017-2022) and the Research Board of the Toda Peace Institute (2020-2023, Tokyo). She is part of the Institute for Economics and Peace (Sydney), Vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, and member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems. She was the Nobel Peace Institute Fellow in Oslo in 2017. A multiple teaching award-winner, her recent publications appeared in Nature, Foreign Affairs, International Relations, and other top journals.
HuMach Focus
In the HuMach project, Denise Garcia will examine the extent to which current practices of human-machine interaction raise governance challenges and therefore demands in the military domain.
Areas of Expertise
Global Governance of AI in the Military Domain | International Law and Disarmament
Dr Hendrik Huelss
Co-Investigator
Dr Hendrik Huelss
Co-Investigator
Dr Hendrik Huelss is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Center for War Studies, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern Denmark. He is also associated Senior Researcher in the European Research Council (ERC) project AutoNorms (2020-2025).
From 2016 to 2020, Hendrik held the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher (Grants and Impact) at the School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent.
Hendrik’s research combines an interest in norms in International Relations with perspectives on technologies in politics. He is especially interested in the implications of military AI/autonomous weapon systems. He uses theories from Science and Technology Studies, International Political Sociology, and International Relations with a broad interest in constructivist/poststructural studies in IR and perspectives such as concepts of governmentality.
Hendrik has published in journals such as European Journal of International Security, International Political Sociology, International Theory, Journal of European Public Policy, and Review of International Studies. He is also co-author of Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2022, with Ingvild Bode).
HuMach Focus
As a collaborator on the HuMach project, Hendrik Huelss will work with the PI in WP1 “Distributed Agency”. He will contribute to the theoretical foundations of HuMach by co-conceptualizing the central concept of distributed agency in the military context. The WP builds on the basic assumption that the distribution of agency between AI and humans follows a fundamentally different and novel logic, which requires a deep exploration of theoretical models and rethinking of existing conceptual approaches to agency. WP1 will also entail the interviewing of practice-oriented AI researchers to access technical understandings of agency.
Areas of Expertise
Norms, AI and Technology | Knowledge and Expertise | European Union External Relations | International Relations Theory
Dr Anisa Heritage
Co-Investigator, contributing in her personal capacity
Dr Anisa Heritage
Co-Investigator, contributing in her personal capacity
Dr Anisa Heritage is Senior Lecturer at the Defence and International Affairs Department, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. She holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent, UK. Her research interests cover US Indo-Pacific policy, US-China relations, NATO-Indo-Pacific relations, UK partnership-building in the Indo-Pacific as well as maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region. More generally, she is also interested in broader questions around international security and world order.
HuMach Focus
Anisa Heritage contributes to research on how military personnel in the UK experience interacting with AI technologies and the effects of this interaction on their decision-making space.
Areas of Expertise
US Asia-Pacific Policy | US-China Relations | International Security
Dr Vincent Boulanin
Collaborator
Dr Vincent Boulanin
Collaborator
Dr Vincent Boulanin is Director of the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Programme at SIPRI. He leads SIPRI’s research on issues related to the development, use and control of autonomy in weapon systems and military applications of artificial intelligence. His current work focuses on risks associated with the misuse of civilian AI research and innovation and on responsible innovation as a form of upstream technology governance. He regularly presents his work to and engages with governments, United Nations bodies, international organizations, and the media. Before joining SIPRI in 2014, he completed a doctorate in Political Science at École des Hautes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
HuMach Focus
Vincent Boulanin will host and mentor Anna Nadibaidze during her visiting stay at the Governance of AI Programme at SIPRI.
Areas of Expertise
Autonomous Weapons Systems | Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Arms Production | Defence Industry | Cybersecurity and Surveillance Technologies | Securitization Theory and Risk Governance | International Political Sociology
