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21 February 2025, 09:30-11:00
Register start 20 January 2025
Register end 21 February 2025

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Feeling Unsafe: Law as Emotional Regulation in the Development and Deployment of AI-enabled Means and Methods of Warfare

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This panel event, co-organised with the Geneva Graduate Institute, explores the role that emotions play in the development, deployment, and regulation of artificial intelligence in warfare. This conversation with scholars working in the field of international humanitarian law is informed by broader theoretical perspectives, as well as by concrete practical applications of AI in the contemporary battlefield.

Welcome and introductions:

Anne Saab
Associate Professor of International Law, Geneva Graduate Institute; PI on SNF-funded project ‘Emotions and International Law’

Panelists:

Nehal Bhuta
Professor of Public International Law, University of Edinburgh

Anna Greipl
PhD researcher, Geneva Graduate Institute and researcher, Geneva Academy

Rebecca Mignot Mahdavi
Assistant Professor of Law, Sciences Po Law School

Aliki Semertzi
Postdoctoral researcher, SNF-funded project ‘Emotions and International Law’, Geneva Graduate Institute

Moderator & discussant:

Erica Harper
Head of Research and Policy Studies, Geneva Academy

 

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This event may be filmed, recorded and/or photographed on behalf of the Geneva Academy. The Geneva Academy may use these recordings and photographs for internal and external communications for information, teaching and research purposes, and/or promotion and illustration through its various media channels (website, social media, newsletters, annual report, etc.).

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