Presentations

2023

• Berenice Boutin, ‘The Duty of States to Respect and Ensure Respect with International Law in the Design, Development, and Adoption of Military AI’, Roundtable on International Governance of Military AI: The Way Forward, Asser Institute, The Hague (28 November 2023)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘The Promises and Pitfalls of Military Applications of AI’, Conference on Ethics of AI: What Impact on Geopolitics and Security, organised by the Alliance française Amsterdam in partnership with CODAM coding college, Amsterdam (19 October 2023)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘The Justification of AI Hype’, Workshop on Technology, International Law, and Non-Legal Sources: Possibilities and Pitfalls, Griffith University Law Futures Centre, Hybrid / Brisbane, Australia (29 September 2023)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘International Law as Practice, Human Agency and Human/Machine(-Learning) Interactions in the Military Domain’, Workshop on Technology, International Law, and Non-Legal Sources: Possibilities and Pitfalls, Griffith University Law Futures Centre, Hybrid / Brisbane, Australia (29 September 2023)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘A User-Friendly Philosophy of Technology’, 4TU Research Day, Utrecht (20 September 2023)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘International Law as Practice, Human Agency and the Challenges of Military Artificial Intelligence’, European International Studies Association (EISA) 16th Pan-European Conference on International Relations, Potsdam (8 September 2023)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘International Law and the Possibilities for Human Agency in Algorithmically Supported Decision-Making’, BISA International Studies and Emerging Technologies (ISET) Working Group Second Annual Conference, Dublin (1 September 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Military Surveillance Practices: What Machines See and Algorithms Know’, LACPO Meeting, University of Amsterdam (4 July 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, panellist at the event ‘Gender and Artificial Intelligence in Justice, Peace and Security’, organised by the International Development Law Organization (IDLO), the Embassy of the Republic of Cyprus in the Netherlands, and the Embassy of Switzerland in the Netherlands (1 June 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, speaker at the book launch of Drones and International Law: A Techno-Legal Machinery by Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, ESIL Interest Group on International Law and Technology (26 June 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Military Surveillance Practices: What Machines See and Algorithms Know’, VU Amsterdam International Law Research Group (22 June 2023)

• Tomasz Zurek, Michal Araszkiewicz, Enrico Francesconi, ‘Identification of Legislative Errors’, ICAIL 2023, Braga, Portugal (22 June 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Military AI on the Battlefield’, Guest lecture, Data Futures Lab, Amsterdam University College, Amsterdam (20 June 2023)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘The Role of “AI Ethics Principles” from the Perspective of International Law’,  Workshop on Critical Reflections on AI Ethics Principles and Societal Inputs for the Governance of Military AI, co-organised by the DILEMA Project (Asser Institute) and the Battlefield AI Project (University of New South Wales Canberra), The Hague (26 April 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘How Could New Technologies Enhance IHL Compliance In Urban Warfare?’, Study Day on War in Cities, organised by the Military Law and the Law of War Center of the Belgian Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW) in cooperation with the Belgian Red Cross and the ICRC, Mechelen (20 April 2023)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Obligations and Responsibility of States in Relation to AI’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (30 March 2023)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘The Human Dimension of AI-Mediated Warfare and IHL’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (30 March 2023)

• Magdalena Pacholska, ‘Military Applications of AI: An Operational Perspective’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (30 March 2023)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Human-AI Relationships: Moving Beyond “Human Control”’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (29 March 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Algorithmic Surveillance and Behavioural Targeting’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (28 March 2023)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Introduction to AI (Part 2): Machine-Learning Systems’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (28 March 2023)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Introduction to AI (Part 1): Knowledge-Based Systems’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (27 March 2023)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Introduction to Philosophy of Technology’, Spring Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (27 March 2023)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Human Control over Military Applications of Artificial Intelligence’, Public Conference on International Humanitarian Law & Technologies, organised by the Austrian Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and the Austrian Red Cross, Vienna (14 March 2023)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘From Metaphysics to Ethics, Design and Regulation’, PEPTalk #16, Platform for the Ethics and Politics of Technology, University of Amsterdam (24 February 2023)

• Klaudia Klonowska, speaker at the panel discussion ‘Decision-Support Systems and Human-Machine Interaction’, REAIM Summit (15 February 2023, The Hague)

2022

• Mostafa Mohajeriparizi, Jonathan Kwik, Tomasz Zurek and Tom van Engers, ‘Can a Military Autonomous Device Follow International Humanitarian Law?’, JURIX 2022 Conference, Saarbrucken (15-16 December 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek and Adam Wyner, ‘Values, Justifications, and Consortia’, AICOL 2022 Workshop (AI and Complexity of Law), Saarbrucken (14 December 2022)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘The Means of Warfare and their Masters: Human-Centrism in the Regulation of Emerging Technologies of Warfare’, Workshop: Military Imaginaries of AI and the Anthropocene, Uppsala University (8 December 2022)

• Berenice Boutin and Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Legal and Ethical Perspectives on the Impact of Military Applications of AI on Human Judgment and Agency’, 9th Korean Institute of Criminology and Justice International Forum: Emerging Technologies and Human Rights - Legal and Ethical Considerations in Regulating Artificial Intelligence (7 December 2022)

• Magdalena Pacholska, ‘New Technologies, Same Old Mistakes? Unintended Engagements as Potential IHL Violations’, 5th Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency: The Warfare of Tomorrow, University of Haifa (15 November 2022)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘The Automation of Warfare: Artificial Intelligence and Human Interaction’, Nederlandse Rode Kruis Humanitair Oorlogsrecht Congres, The Hague (4 November 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Dynamic Ontologies for AI Systems to Support Moral and Legal Decision Making’, ESDiT2022 Conference, Oegstgeest (7 October 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek and Dorota Stachura-Zurek, ‘Virtue Ethics and Autonomous Devices’, ESDiT2022 Conference, Oegstgeest (6 October 2022)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘Human Rights in Armed Conflict and Military AI: Reflections on the Duty to Investigate’, Expert Panel Discussion on ‘The Threat of Autonomous Weapons Systems to International Human Rights Law’, organised by Stop Killer Robots, side event to the 51st Session of the UN Human Rights Council (29 September 2022)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘Human Agency and IHL: Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Support Systems’, Silent Leges Inter Arma Conference, under the auspices of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, Bruges (22 September 2022)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Article 36 Legal Review and AI Decision-Support Systems’, Silent Leges Inter Arma Conference, under the auspices of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, Bruges (21 September 2022)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘The Human Dimension of International Law: Exploring the Relationship Between IHL and the Exercise of Human Agency’, Asser Institute Research Lab (14 September 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek and Adam Wyner, ‘Towards a Formal Framework for Motivated Argumentation and the Roots of Conflict’, CS-Theory Seminar, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, United Kingdom (9 September 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Activity Realism: A Queer Philosophy of Objects’, University of Twente Philosophy Colloquium, University of Twente (8 September 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh and Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Agency and the Regulation of Socio-Technical Systems’, Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Interest Group on Social Sciences and International Law, Pre-Conference Workshop on ‘Connecting Social Practices to Legal Outcomes’, Utrecht (1 September 2022)

• Klaudia Klonowska and Tasniem Anwar, ‘The Use of Behavioural Pattern Recognition in Classifying Terrorists: Overinclusion of Digital Identities’, Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), Interest Group on International Law and Technology, Pre-Conference Workshop on ‘Algorithmic and Technological Modes of In-/Exclusion – International Legal Method and Critique’, Utrecht (31 August 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Decision-Making in Autonomous Vehicles and Scenario Testing using Multi-Agent Systems’, Computational Normative Systems Workshop, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (26 August 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Agency as Impact: Re-Engineering a Technologically Disrupted Concept’, Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark (5 July 2022)

• Magdalena Pacholska, ‘Many Hands in the Black Box: Artificial Intelligence and the Responsibility of International Organizations’, DILEMA Symposium on Interim Research Results, Asser Institute (29 June 2022)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘State Responsibility in Relation to Military AI: Obligations at the Pre-Deployment Stage’, DILEMA Symposium on Interim Research Results, Asser Institute (29 June 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Framing the Military Autonomous Device to Follow International Humanitarian Law’, DILEMA Symposium on Interim Research Results, Asser Institute (29 June 2022)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control’, DILEMA Symposium on Interim Research Results, Asser Institute (29 June 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Autonomy in the Context of Decision-Making Dilemmas’, DILEMA Symposium on Interim Research Results, Asser Institute (29 June 2022)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘Algorithmically-Supported Targeting Decisions, International Humanitarian Law and Aspects of Human Agency’, Autonorms Workshop on The Algorithmic Turn in Security and Warfare, Odense, Denmark (30 May 2022)

• Jonathan Kwik, Tomasz Zurek, and Tom van Engers, ‘Designing International Humanitarian Law into Military Autonomous Devices’, International Workshop on Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, Norms and Ethics for Governance of Multi-Agent Systems (COINE 2022), co-located with AAMAS 2022 (10 May 2022)

• Magdalena Pacholska, ‘Legal Ramifications of the Provision of Arms and Material to Ukraine’, Belgian Group of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War (ISMLLW), Roundtable on the War in Ukraine and International Law, Brussels (28 April 2022)

• Klaudia Klonowska and Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Agents as Impactful Entities: Redesigning a Technologically Disrupted Concept’, ESDiT Workshop on Conceptual Engineering and Socially Disruptive Technologies (1 April 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Applying Ethics to Autonomous Agents’, Asser Institute Research Lab (23 March 2022)

• Klaudia Klonowska and Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Agents as Impactful Entities: Redesigning a Technologically Disrupted Concept’, Asser Institute Research Lab (2 March 2022)

• Magdalena Pacholska and Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Workshop: IHL in Action’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (24 February 2022)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘State Responsibility in Relation to AI’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (24 February 2022)

• Magdalena Pacholska and Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Military Applications of AI and International Humanitarian Law’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (24 February 2022)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘AI in the Public Sector and Strategic Litigation: A Case Study’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (23 February 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Re-Engineering the Disrupted Notion of Agency’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (22 February 2022)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Technical Introduction to AI and Demonstration’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (21 February 2022)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Introduction to Philosophy of Technology’, Winter Academy on AI and International Law, Asser Institute (21 February 2022)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘The Human Dimension of AI-Mediated Warfare: A Perspective on Human Agency and the Proportionality Rule under International Humanitarian Law’, AutoNorms Conference: The Algorithmic Turn in Security and Warfare (6 January 2022)

2021

• Tomasz Zurek, Taylor Woodcock, and Magdalena Pacholska, ‘Computational Modelling of the Proportionality Analysis under International Humanitarian Law for Military Decision-Support Systems’, AICOL-XAILA Workshop, JURIX2021 Conference (8 December 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘The International Legal Framework of MHC at the Organisational Level’, Workshop on Meaningful Human Control of AI-based Systems: Key Characteristics, Influencing Factors, and Design Considerations, NATO Science and Technology Organization, HFM-322 (25 October 2021) 

• Magdalena Pacholska, ‘Military AI and the Principle of Distinction: A Perspective on State Responsibility’, 4th Young Researchers Workshop on Terrorism and Belligerency, University of Haifa, Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions (13 October 2021)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Intra-actions of Human Judgment and AI Decision-Support Technologies in Military-Decision Making’, Asser Institute Research Lab (13 October 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Autonomous Systems and the Human Factor’, Symposium Celebrating Fifty Years of the Chair of Military Law, University of Amsterdam (8 October 2021)

• Tomasz Zurek, ‘Formal Model of Moral Decision Making Mechanism’, Meeting of the Complex Cyber Infrastructure (CCI) group, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (5 October 2021)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Ethics of AI’, Guest Lecture at Narrabundah College (23 July 2021)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Limitations of System Autonomy and Design of Autonomous Systems’, CEPE/IACAP Conference, University of Hamburg (7 July 2021)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Technology and World Pictures’, SPT 2021 Conference, Lille Catholic University (30 June 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Intelligent and Autonomous Technologies in Combat Decision-Making’, Conference on Honest Errors? Combat Decision Autonomy 75 Years After the Hostage Case (4 June 2021)

• Klaudia Klonowska, ‘Interplay of Human Judgement and AI Technologies in Military Decision Making. An Empirical-Legal Study’, IHCL Platform PhD Day (26 May 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Public International Law Implications of States using Artificial Intelligence’, Seminar on International Law and Technology, International Law Association (Singapore Branch) & National University of Singapore Centre for International Law (20 May 2021)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘Enabling the Fulfilment of International Law Obligations in Military AI by Design’, Asser Institute Research Lab (24 March 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Mapping Responsibilities in Relation to Military Applications of AI’, AIV/CAVV Expert Meeting on (Lethal) Autonomous Weapon Systems, New Technologies and the Legal and Ethical Challenges (17 March 2021)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘PhD Research Outline Presentation’, DTDM Research Initiative Lunchtime Talk (12 March 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Addressing Gaps in the International Regulation of Warfare and Dual-Use Technologies’, Informal Meeting of the Strategic EU Process on Responsible Military Use of New Technologies, European Union External Action Service (25 February 2021)

• Taylor Woodcock, ‘Facilitating Compliance with International Law in Military AI by Design’, Doctoral Research Forum of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research (22 February 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘State Responsibility in Relation to AI’, Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law, Asser Institute (18 February 2021)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Customisable Ethics Settings for Autonomous Systems’, Winter Academy on Artificial Intelligence and International Law, Asser Institute (11 February 2021)

• Sadjad Soltanzadeh, ‘Strictly Human: Limitations of System Autonomy and the Design of Autonomous Systems’, Asser Institute Research Lab (27 January 2021)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Military AI, International Law, and Human Agency’, Meeting of the SNE lab, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (21 January 2021)

2020

• Berenice Boutin, ‘The Duty of States to Ensure Respect for International Law by Private Companies: An Opportunity for Guiding Principles Regarding Security Technologies?’, Expert Meeting on International Regulation of Warfare and Dual-Use Technologies (11 November 2020)

• Terry Gill, ‘Article 36 Additional Protocol I: Scope and Limitations’, Expert Meeting on International Regulation of Warfare and Dual-Use Technologies (11 November 2020)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Scope and Goals of the DILEMA Project’, Asser Institute Research Lab (16 September 2020)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘Military AI, International Law, and the DILEMA Project’, NATO Workshop on Emerging and Disruptive Technologies: AI & Data (8 April 2020)

• Berenice Boutin, ‘International Law Perspectives on Military AI’, Microsoft Data Science & Law Forum: Tools & Rules for Responsible AI, Brussels, Belgium (3 March 2020)