Contemporary warfare and security practices are significantly shaped by digitisation and Artificial Intelligence (AI), with all aspects of conflict becoming increasingly data-driven.

Data analytics and AI are crucial in modern conflicts for information gathering, military strategy, automated targeting, and battlefield simulation, enhancing precision, speed, and autonomy of warfare systems. Big Tech companies and governments are playing significant roles in data-driven battlefield targeting and experimentation, potentially signalling a new regime of warfare.

Interdisciplinary perspective

These developments raise profound and urgent legal, societal, behavioural, ethical, cultural, economic, ecological and health questions that cut across all disciplines and faculties at the UvA. 

Responsible Digital Transformations therefore invites seed grant proposals that map, understand, and analyse these developments from an interdisciplinary perspective, with a core focus on questions of digital responsibility. Collaborations can combine technical and non-technical disciplines – for example, between computer scientists, ethicists, legal scholars, and social scientists.

The totality of different proposals will contribute to developing societal resilience around datafied warfare.