Artificial Intelligence in Military Technology

Kairi Talves is Scientific Adviser in the Estonian Ministry of Defence and Visiting Researcher at the Estonian Military Academy. She has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Tartu. Her main research interests cover the different aspects of technology in society: societal development and change (e.g., technological developments) and their social impact, people’s attitudes and coping in the context of rapid societal changes, public acceptance of technology and technology in the military: risks, trust, acceptance, ethical aspects, challenges of human-machine interaction, cognitive warfare, innovation of military organizations, technology, and states’ power balance. She has published a number of research papers in international journals and chapters in edited volumes. She has received the Global Digital Governance Fellowship at Stanford University for Estonian Scholars, from February–May 2024. This fellowship is related to the research about the role of technology in strengthening national security and resilience in small countriesDierk Spreen is a sociologist. He did his doctorate at the University of Freiburg in 1998 and habilitated at the University of Paderborn in 2006 with a thesis on war and society. He is currently a visiting professor for social sciences at the Berlin School for Economics and Law (HWR), Senior Project Manager at the Institute for Organizational Communication at University of the Bundeswehr in Munich and lecturer for "Communication" in Human-Technology-Interaction at the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences (h2). Before that, he headed an online platform for science communication of the Helmholtz Association. From 2022 to 2024 he was a Visiting Researcher at the Estonian Military Academy (EMA) in Tartu. His main areas of interest are human-technology integration, artificial intelligence, transhumanism, space travel, sociology of the military, strategic communication and political economy.

• Introduction-. Part I The Robot Understanding.- Fear for the Robots Cultural Perspectives about the Fear for Technology.- Humanism or Transhumanism Critique of transhumanism.- Military Robots in Science Fiction.- Overview of the international policy perspective on AI in the military.- What do the soldiers think A small country perspective.- Part 2 AI and Military Conflict Human factor and military technology in warfare a historical perspective.- Control the AIs An engineering perspective.- AI in the Military from the Perspective of the Innere Führung.- Autonomous Weapons Systems A Review of Legal and Ethical Issues.- Overview on the systems theory approach to war and violent conflicts.- The impact of cultural factors on trust technology in the case of strategic decision making.- Challenges of communicating military innovation.- Hybrid Warfare and Defence of Discourse De legitimization of the western political system.- Autonomy and communication the FCAS process.- Cognitive warfare and Bourdieu’s theory doxa and illusio marching into cognitive battle.- Exploring and controlling the AI A Human Factors and Human Systems Integration Approach.