"Digital technologies in warfare: mitigating the human cost": debates and the IRRC launch

Name: "Digital technologies in warfare: mitigating the human cost": debates and the IRRC launch
Start: 2021-12-16T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2021-12-16T12:30:00+01:00

16 December 2021

10:00 CET

12:30 CET

Online

Russia

Happening now

Speakers & panelists

Expert

Sergey Karelov

PhD, Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of the League of Independent IT Experts. Author of the channel "The world is not easy".

Expert

Amandeep Gill

Director of the International Digital Health and AI Research Collaborative of the Graduate Institute for International and Development Studies in Geneva. Member of the UNESCO Ad Hoc Expert Group drafting a recommendation on the ethics of AI.

Expert

Massimo Marelli

Head of the Data Protection Office at the ICRC. Fellow at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Cambridge, and at the European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity, Maastricht. Co-editor of the DigitHarium.

Moderator

Elena Chernenko

PhD, Head of International Section, Kommersant newspaper, member of Presidium of the RF Council on Foreign and Defence Policy, member of the PIR Center Working Group on International Information Security and Global Internet Governance.

About the event

Digital technologies represent both a beacon of hope and a series of unprecedented risks.

Such risks include data leaks, cyberoperations, challenges of control over AI and autonomous wearpons, misinformation, disinformation and hate speach online. When digital technologies are used in armed conflicts as a means and method of warfare, they bring about humanitarian consequences, which the applicable rules of international humanitarian law are meant to mitigate.

There are also overarching themes relating to digital technologies in wartime, informing laws, policies and practice, namely, "trust" and "ethics". Indeed, principled humanitarian action, just like data sharing, is based on trust, and even means and methods of warfare should be informed by ethical framework. That's what we would like our guest speakers to focus on.

Program

10.00	Welcome and presentation of the Review Bruno Demeyere, Editor-in-Chief, IRRC
10.30	"Digital technologies in warfare: mitigating the human cost": discussion Sergey Karelov, Amandeep Gill, Massimo Marelli. Moderator - Elena Chernenko.
11.30	Questions and answers
12.00	Conclusions Bruno Demeyere, Editor-in-Chief, IRRC