Autonomous Weapon Systems, Conflict and Governance

In this episode of Transparentech, I take you onto a deep dive into the UK Post Office scandal that has received lots of attention at the start of this year with the release of the ‘Mr Bates v. the Post Office’ ITV series. I use this case study to approach the topic of technological harm to unpack what perceptions we have of technology and how this impacts the way humans deal with machines doing mistakes. I equally look at the impact on the victims of technological harm and how they can use their voices and the help of the media and other actors to make themselves heard. To give you a broader perspective, I also introduce you to two further case studies on technological harm from the Netherlands and the US. Thanks for tuning in, I look forwards to your feedback! Music and Editing: Paul Vanier @paulovanier

In this episode, I introduce you to the world of AI used in military contexts to explore its governance and ethics implications. I give an introduction to what Autonomous Weapon Systems are, explore their capabilities and limitations and then introduce you to the core international governance challenges through the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons and work by the United Nations. Finally, I present two practical use cases: the use of AWS in the war in Ukraine and the conflict between Israel and Gaza. Music and editing: Paul Vanier @paulovanier

Hello and welcome back to this second episode of Transparentech where I discuss current affairs in the field of new technologies and their effects on society, politics and democracy. In this episode I will talk about the increasing use of surveillance software used on school issued mobile devices like laptops and tablets in an effort to address complex social problems such as school shooting, bullying or suicide. Throughout the episode, I will ask the question of whether such technology fulfils its goal, whether we should rely on such software as a fix for social problems in comparison to the risks it entails for monitored students. If you want to learn more about this, please tune in and leave me some feedback. Thank you.

Hello and welcome to Transparentech. For this very first episode, I will introduce myself and this new podcast. Then I will give you a taste of this format and talk about the emergence of AI generative art and how it impacts  artists' process of creation and their profession in broader terms by taking a recent example from Twitter. The second point I will look at is how this new form of AI generative art sparks questions in terms of copyright protection and what legal challenges will determine this field in the upcoming months and years.  Thank you very much for listening and please feel free to give me some feedback on this first episode of Transparentech! If you are interested in checking out the sources I used for this episode, refer to the following links: Stalenhag Story:  https://www.wired.com/story/artists-rage-against-machines-that-mimic-their-work/ https://twitter.com/simonstalenhag/status/1559817133294485504 https://twitter.com/Jallafsen/status/1412717339527815173 General context:  https://www.wired.com/story/when-ai-makes-art/ https://towardsdatascience.com/i-trained-an-ai-to-imitate-my-own-art-style-this-is-what-happened-461785b9a15b. (Michael Kammerer experiment) https://www.pcworld.com/article/820518/midjourneys-ai-art-goes-live-for-everyone.html Legal aspects:  https://www.technollama.co.uk/copyright-infringement-in-artificial-intelligence-art https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32019L0790&from=EN#d1e1084-92-1 https://dot.la/creative-machines-ai-art-2656764050.html https://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2018/05/artificial-intelligence-art-who-owns-copyright-0 https://iclg.com/briefing/17245-when-ai-gets-creative-can-artificial-intelligence-own-ip-rights-turkey