This episode focuses on Artificial Intelligence in modern warfare and military automation. It also features a discussion on the ethical use of emerging technologies in conflict. Such discussion is much needed in order to understand our changing world, as well as the conditions that shape and repeat history itself.

Originally a historian and a sociologist, Maaike Verbruggen now studies the future of warfare. She is a Doctoral Researcher at the Center for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy at the Brussels School of Governance at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium). Her specialty is the intersection between emerging technologies, military innovation, and arms control, and she is currently finishing up her PhD on military innovation in Artificial Intelligence – and particularly the controversies behind it.