Chris and Medlir are joined Dr. Jelena Cupac, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Global Governance Research Unit at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center in Germany, to discuss her work on patriarchy, democracy, and AI ethics.

Links:

• Engines of Patriarchy: Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Times of Illiberal Backlash Politics
• Backlash advocacy and NGO polarization over women's rights in the United Nations

Chris discusses with Asser Institute's Taylor Woodcock  the implications of the development and use of military applications of AI for the international legal obligations applicable in armed conflict under international humanitarian law and international human rights law.

Links:

• Aspects of Realizing (Meaningful) Human Control: A Legal Perspective | https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4109202
• Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons | https://www.humanrightshere.com/post/doctoral
• Lethal autonomous weapons, war crimes, and the Convention on Conventional Weapons | https://theglobal.blog/2019/05/28/lethal-autonomous-weapons-war-crimes-and-the-convention-on-conventional-weapons/

In this episode Medlir and Chris have a chat with Young Diogenes about the use of AI in the latest Top Gun movie, and then explore the boundaries, risks, and opportunities of human-AI collaboration going forward, in a wide ranging discussion that also looks at the question of ‘tamagotchi’ children.

Links:

• Hear Val Kilmer's AI voice – Sonantic
• Val Kilmer’s daughter says watching dad film ‘Maverick’ was ‘extraordinary’
• IMDB
• Val Kilmer's Dialogue in "Top Gun: Maverick" Was Read By AI Because He Can't Speak Anymore

In this episode Medlir and Chris speak with the two of the authors of a Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) Georgetown report on AI cooperation among members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, more commonly known as the Quad.

Links

• Quad AI | Assessing AI-related Collaboration between the United States, Australia, India, and Japan
• The Future of the Quad’s Technology Cooperation Hangs in the Balance

Medlir and Chris discuss the distinction between analogue and digital approaches to IR and the impact of digital innovations in peace-building. They also ask whether digital peace is any more secure and less fragile than the analog one. Meanwhile Young Diogenes engages with Derek Parfit's 'hinge of history' argument and, unsurprisingly, finds extant interpretations lacking.

Links:

• The Oxford Handbook of Peacebuilding, Statebuilding, and Peace Formation
• Peace-making: new technologies are no panacea
• Can history be used to predict the future? Some experts say it can

Medlir and Chris discuss Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the future of global trade, data colonialism and prospects for the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework with guest Dan Ciuriak, while Young Diogenes talks up AI’s potential to transform manufacturing ("Yes, yes, I understand 'Manufacturing' won't seem all that exciting to some of you. Ha. " --YD) 

Links:

• Unfree Flow with No Trust | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/unfree-flow-with-no-trust-the-implications-of-geoeconomics-and-geopolitics-for-data-and-digital-trade/
• Into the Post-Pandemic | https://www.cigionline.org/articles/into-the-post-pandemic-on-the-new-world-orders-and-their-would-be-architects/
  
  

Chris and Medlir explore with Young Diogenes the question of whether AI will be our artist of the future, while Medlir talks to Ilan Manor about public digital diplomacy and the use of digital tools in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Links:

• AI-art isn’t art
• Communicating with Purpose and Value: Chapter 3 Digital Diplomacy
• How Digital Diplomacy is Shaping the #Ukraine Crisis
• Digital Diplomacy in #Ukraine- A Case of Strategic Transparency
• Why digital sanctions are the latest geopolitical battleground

Chris and Medlir review AI-themed television shows with Young Diogenes (e.g. Westworld), followed by a discussion with Frederick Bruneault, professor of philosophy at University of Quebec Montreal, asking the question: How do we define AI ethics and how do we avoid pitfalls in the debate surrounding it. Finally, we ask Dr. Bruneault, what is missing from the current discussion on AI ethics?

Links:

• Groupe de recherche sur l’information et la surveillance au quotidien
• AI ethics debate: How can information ethics provide a framework which allows us to avoid usual conceptual pitfalls?» (coll. A.S. Laflamme), AI & Society, 36, 2021, 757-766
• AI Ethics Training in Higher Education: Competency Framework» (coll. A.S. Laflamme & A. Mondoux), SocArXiv, March 2022
• The role of corporations in addressing AI’s ethical dilemmas, Darrell M. West Thursday, September 13, 2018 
• Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Human Rights: Risks and Opportunities
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Medlir and Chris start off our third season with AI4Peace's Branka Panic, about how AI can contribute to peace and conflict prevention. Plus see our bonus episode this week on YD's AI movie picks, which also led to a lively second discussion.

Links:

• AI4Peace | https://www.aiforpeace.org/ 
• Report on data for peacebuilding and prevention | https://cic.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/can_emerging_technologies_lead_a_revival_of_conflict_early_warningearly_action_lessons_from_the_field-2022_0.pdf 
• The Berkeley Protocol | https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/12/berkeley-protocol-gives-guidance-using-public-digital-info-fight-human-rights 
• The Costs of Connection | https://colonizedbydata.com/ 
• Conflict Forecast | https://conflictforecast.org/ 
• Hala Systems | https://halasystems.com/