Regulation

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It seems like technoscientific reality has begun to catch up with policymakers. However, an international regulatory or ethical framework that deals specifically with the issue of AI-enabled warfare remains absent. This means that the rules and norms governing the increasingly autonomous contemporary battlefield are currently formed through practice.

Marijn Hoijtink, Jessica Dorsey

February 7, 2025

PLATFORM WARS and RAW researchers comment on Google's drawback in military AI policy

In interviews with news outlets De Morgen, Radio1 and Trouw, Marijn Hoijtink and Jessica Dorsey reflect on Google’s departure from its commitment not to develop technology for weapon systems.

February 11, 2025

PLATFORM WARS is growing

The project welcomes three new PhD researchers who will conduct research on platform corporations' role in contemporary warfare from a variety of theoretical, conceptual and empirical perspectives.

Lauren Gould, Marijn Hoijtink, Martine Jaarsma & Jack Davies

January 23, 2025

Article: Innovating Algorithmic Warfare - Experimentation with Information Manoeuvre beyond the Boundaries of the Law

This article, published in Global Society, analyses how algorithmic innovation in contemporary warfare unfolds through new alliances and contestations among civil and military actors in the face of an overarching rhetoric around the need to lead in “information manoeuvre”.

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Events

Berlin, Germany

Nov 28, 2024

Conference: 'Investigating the Kill Cloud'

Antwerp, Belgium

Jan 29, 2025

Workshop: 'Platforms on the Frontline'

Paris, France

May 2, 2024

Conference: 'Big Tech as an Actor of Global Security and Geopolitical Conflicts'

Antwerp, Belgium

Jun 6, 2024

Workshop: 'Launching PLATFORM WARS'

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February 26, 2025

PLATFORM WARS and RAW in the media: an overview of our public outreach in 2024

In light of the increasing automation and platformization of warfare and military decision-making, especially in the context of Ukraine and Gaza, the expertise of PLATFORM WARS and RAW researchers was high in demand last year, resulting in a series of interviews in newspapers, radio stations and podcasts.

February 26, 2025

Platforms on the Frontline: The Rise of the Platform Model in Defense Tech

In a recent blog post for Opiniojuris, PLATFORM WARS' Marijn Hoijtink and Jasper van der Kist reflect on the growing importance of the platform model in defense tech and warfare, drawing analogies to other domains in which platform corporations have gained extraordinary market power in recent years.

February 26, 2025

Reflections on our 'Platforms on the Frontline' workshop

In the last week of January, the PLATFORM WARS project organized an interdisciplinary workshop focusing on different conceptualizations of ‘the platform’ and what they could add to the analysis of contemporary warfare.