From Gaza to Ukraine, the military applications of AI are fundamentally reshaping the dynamics and ethics of war.
In a discussion at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, an expert panel, including Carnegie Council President Joel Rosenthal, examined the implications of AI on the battlefield and what moral and legal safeguards are needed to protect civilians from harm. How should policymakers navigate AI’s inherent trade-offs?
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Unraveling Norms of Diplomatic Immunity? The Case of Diplomatic Premises
What are the ethical implications of undermining diplomatic immunity? In a new online exclusive for the Ethics & International Affairs journal, University of Oxford's Corneliu Bjola discusses the impact of Ecuador's recent incursion into Mexico’s embassy and Israel’s airstrike on Iran’s diplomatic compound in Damascus.
What are governments doing around the world to protect their citizens’ rights in cyberspace? U.S. Naval War College’s Derek Reveron and Brown University’s John E. Savage joined Senior Fellows Nick Gvosdev and Tatiana Serafin to discuss their new book Security in the Cyber Age and how we can protect ourselves online.
Space and lunar memorial services, in which human remains are sent via rockets to outer space or the moon, are growing in popularity, writes Visiting Fellow Zhanna Malekos Smith. But as the Navajo Nation and other Indigenous people view the moon as a sacred place, what are the ethical considerations?
The Model International Mobility Convention (MIMC) attended the Conference on International Migration at Brooklyn’s St. Francis College, sharing a global perspective on trends in migration. MIMC Research Fellow Susie Han writes that these dialogues are needed to address the gaps in international law around human mobility.
A Dangerous Master: Welcome to the World of Emerging Technologies
As many of the technologies that Carengie-Uehiro Fellow Wendell Wallach wrote about in his 2015 book A Dangerous Master are either just beginning to be available or not yet realized, Sentient Publications has republished this as a paperback. In this preface, Wallach discusses recent breakthroughs and ethical issues in AI and emerging technologies.
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