<nettime> Online Hearing 'targeted killing' < tomorrow friday 6 pm

[christian heck via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

dear nettimers,

in april we, the Working group against armed drones 
<https://drohnen.frieden-und-zukunft.de/>and the Computer Professionals 
for Peace and Societal Responsibility (FIfF e. V. 
<https://blog.fiff.de/>), together with the Information Center on 
Militarization (IMI e. V. <https://www.imi-online.de/>) have published a 
posistion paper 
<https://blog.fiff.de/warnung-senkung-der-hemmschwelle-durch-kuenstliche-intelligenz/> 
on direct response to the research from yuval abraham in /+972 
<Information Center on Militarization>/ about the AI-powered Decision 
Support and Targeting System "Lavender" used by the IDF. you'll find an 
english version of our paper in /Berlinger Gazette/ here: 
https://berlinergazette.de/against-the-rationalization-of-war/

Since then, an international collaboration with people from peace and AI 
research and other fields & disciplines has taken place to deal with the 
call to outlaw the practice of ‘targeted killing’ with AI-powered 
Decision Support Systems (DSS) as a war crime.

finally we have decided to organize an online hearing on it _"targeted 
killing /or /the promise to kill the right one"_ in which you are warmly 
invited!

We are delighted to have been able to invite some amazing speakers to 
give short talks dealing with the following questions:

 * *Even if the protection of the civilian population were the
   intention of the warring parties, would such protection be realistic?*
 * *Is it possible to maintain a clear separation between human and
   machine action and decision-making?*
 * *Will humans become a symbolic representation that can be used,
   replaced or destroyed?* *And if so, how is this dehumanisation
   taking place?*
 * *What does scientific research say about human control,
   responsibility and ethics in current armed conflicts?*
 * *How can decisions based on AI-powered systems be validated and made
   transparent enough for the global public to follow?*
 * *Options for action:* *What can scientists do?* *How can civil
   society and activists get involved?*

The hearing will be held mainly in German. I hope that one or the other 
from the list will still be able to attend. if so, plz register here: 
https://ippnw.de/bit/tk

you'll find some more info about the event »here 
<https://ground-zero.khm.de/targeted-killing>«

*_Programm:_*

*_18.00 Uhr_ – Begrüßung:* Hans-Jörg Kreowski and Christian Heck /(//F/ 
<https://blog.fiff.de/>/IfF e. V./ <https://blog.fiff.de/> – /Forum 
InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche Verantwortung)/

*_18.05 - 18.45 Uhr_ – Moderation:* Angelika Wilmen /(//IPPNW/ 
<https://www.ippnw.de/startseite.html>/– Internationale Ärztinnen für 
die Verhütung des Atomkriegs/Ärztinnen in sozialer Verantwortung)/

 * *Der Mythos ‚Targeted Killing‘ - Zur Verantwortlichkeit bei
   Einsätzen KI-gestützter Tötungssysteme am Beispiel des Lavender-
   Programms*
     o Rainer Rehak/(//Weizenbaum-Institut/
       <https://www.weizenbaum-institut.de/>// //F/
       <https://blog.fiff.de/>/IfF e. V./ <https://blog.fiff.de/>/–
       Forum InformatikerInnen für Frieden und gesellschaftliche
       Verantwortung)/

 * *'Probably Approximately Correct'. Über algorithmische
   Kriegsführung, abduktive Mutmaßungen und automatisiertes >Völkerrecht<*
     o Jutta Weber/(//Universität Paderborn/
       <https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/institut-fuer-medienwissenschaften>//
       //MeHuCo/ <https://meaningfulhumancontrol.de/>/- Meaningful
       Human Control)/

 * *Disruption Network Institute: Investigating the Kill Cloud -
   Bringing transparency to the opacity of data-centric warfare (in
   English)*
     o Tatiana Bazzichelli /(Director and Founder, //D/
       <https://www.disruptionlab.org/>/isruption Network Lab/
       <https://www.disruptionlab.org/>/)/

 * *Q & A*

*_18.45 - 19.25 Uhr_ – Moderation:* Angelika Wilmen /(//IPPNW/ 
<https://www.ippnw.de/startseite.html>/– Internationale Ärztinnen für 
die Verhütung des Atomkriegs/Ärztinnen in sozialer Verantwortung)/

 * *Das katastrophale Ende der Ethik im digitalen Krieg*
     o Elke Schwarz /(//Queen Mary University London/
       <https://www.qmul.ac.uk/politics/>// //ICRAC/
       <https://www.icrac.net/>/– International Commitee for Robot Arms
       Control)/

 * *targeted killing und der Status ziviler Opfer – ein philosophisches
   Problem?*
     o Jobst Paul /(//DISS/ <https://www.diss-duisburg.de/>/–
       Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung)/

 * *Von ferngesteuerten zu autonomen Waffensystemen (AWS) – Gefahren
   für Völkerrecht und militärische Stabilität – wie kann man AWS
   verbieten?*
     o Jürgen Altmann /(//Technische Universität Dortmund/
       <https://physik.tu-dortmund.de/>// //ICRAC/
       <https://www.icrac.net/>/– International Committee for Robot
       Arms Control)/

 * *Q & A*

*_19.25 Uhr_ – Schlußwort:* Susanne Grabenhorst /(//IPPNW/ 
<https://www.ippnw.de/startseite.html>/– Internationale Ärztinnen für 
die Verhütung des Atomkriegs/Ärztinnen in sozialer Verantwortung)/

/+++++++++++++++++++++/

Feel welcome!

christian heck/
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