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#Communication #Sociology #SocialRocketScience #Automation #Cyborg #Security #MilitaryStudies ● HWR Berlin ● UniBw M ● h2 ● hier privat
From a military-historical perspective, Igor Kopõtin, Kaarel Piirimäe, Arto Oll show that #military #technological #innovations can only be effective if they are integrated into the military organization. This also applies to #AI. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
How do #soldiers perceive the introduction of AI-supported systems? What do they expect from #AI? Where do they see problems? Kairi Talves, Priit Värno and Eleri Lillemäe examine such #sociological questions using the example of the #Estonian Forces. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
How could a global, dynamic and transparent #regulation of lethal #AI-applications in the #miltary be initiated? Ferdinand Gehringer and Alexander Schuster propose launching a new initiative–the Strategic Military AI Regulation Talks (SMART). doi.org/10.1007/978-...
October 27, 2025 at 8:20 AM
#Sciencefiction uses literary means to explore the space of possibilities that lies before us. This includes autonomous weapons systems #AWS. According to futurologist Bernd Flessner these technologies will be realized, if they are not already.
The article is #openaccess at doi.org/10.1007/978-...
October 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
In future, there will be teamwork between #AI-based systems and human actors. This cooperation opens the option of a #cyborg #soldier and mutual ethical #enhancement. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Cyborg Soldiers and Ethical Enhancement
This chapter argues that the symbiosis of humans and modern technology (‘cyborg’) does not represent a transitional stage to a machine civilization in a transhumanist sense. In this respect, the following argumentation can be seen as a contribution to a...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:21 AM
In our #DiscourseAnalysis on #ArtificialIntelligence Kairi Talves and I break down these warnings and identify various alarm topoi, with #MilitaryRobots playing a role. It is striking that the topoi are very similar over two centuries. The article is #OpenAccess. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Fear of the Robots: Cultural Perspectives on Technological Autonomy
Since the turn of the nineteenth century, technological autonomy has been critically evaluated and warned against. This article provides an exemplary analysis of this discourse of fear. Several alarming topoi can be identified, among which military robots play a...
doi.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The #military world will change as a result of #ArtificialIntelligence. In this volume the authors examine these challenges of #MilitaryAI from a #sociological, #cultural, and #ethical perspective. doi.org/10.1007/978-...
The volume is #openaccess.
Artificial Intelligence in Military Technology
This open access book volume critically examines challenges in current and future military technology from a transdisciplinary lens.
doi.org
October 2, 2025 at 8:30 AM
In der neuen #Trump-Administration und ihrem Umfeld spielt #Transhumanismus eine erhebliche Rolle. Das ist kein Randphänomen. www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-4...
Kritik des Transhumanismus
Der Transhumanismus ist eine Ideologie der Überschreitung »des Menschen«. Aber halten seine Thesen und Forderungen einer kritischen Betrachtung stand?
www.transcript-verlag.de
March 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Auch weil es farblich so gut zu meinem neuen BlueSky-Account passt, erlaube ich mir als Einstieg den Hinweis auf die "Raumfahrt der Gesellschaft" – ein immer aktueller werdendes Buch, dass #Raumfahrt als gesellschaftliches Projekt versteht.
March 25, 2025 at 6:08 PM