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Militaries around the globe are investing heavily in artificial intelligence and related technologies to automate the conduct of war, heralding a new age of drone warfare that further removes the human decision maker from the effects of their actions. Tracking these developments into the future, this discussion will explore the contested ethical implications of algorithmic warfighting, and what it means for peace, security, and the fundamental right to life.
Featuring:
Lucy Suchman, Professor Emerita, Anthropology of Science and Technology, Lancaster University, UK;
Erik Lin-Greenberg, Assistant Professor, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
Taniel Yusef, international human rights advocate and professor;
Moderated by Arthur Holland Michel, writer and researcher
Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today
This event is part of the symposium Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today, organized by High Line Art and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, in collaboration with writer and researcher Arthur Holland Michel. The symposium is convened by High Line Art in the context of artist Sam Durant‘s High Line Plinth commission Untitled (drone) and the Vera List Center's As for Protocols Focus Theme and was preceded by As for Protocols Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View, September 20, 2021.
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The Vera List Center’s participation in Remote Control is made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Kettering Fund, as well as the members of the Vera List Center Board and The New School.
Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, and Charina Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. High Line Art is supported in part, with a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson.
Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by members of the High Line Plinth Committee and contemporary art leaders committed to realizing major commissions and engaging in the public success of the Plinth: Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Steve Ells, Kerianne Flynn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller and David B. Heller, J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard and Harvey Schwartz, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Amanda and Don Mullen, Douglas Oliver and Sherry Brous, Mario Palumbo and Stefan Gargiulo, Susan and Stephen Scherr, Susan and David Viniar, and Anonymous.
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the Schools of Public Engagement and High Line Art.
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Lucy Suchman is Professor Emerita of the Anthropology of Science and Technology at Lancaster University in the UK. Before taking up that post she was a Principal Scientist at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where she spent twenty years as a researcher. The author of Human-Machine Reconfigurations (2007), her current research extends a longstanding critical engagement with the fields of artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction to the domain of contemporary militarism. She is concerned with the question of whose bodies are incorporated into military systems, how and with what consequences for social justice and the possibility for a less violent world. In 2010 she received the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction Lifetime Research Award.
Dr. Erik Lin-Greenberg is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is an affiliate of the MIT Security Studies Program. His research and teaching examines how emerging military technology affects conflict dynamics and the use of force. Erik’s work has appeared in academic and policy outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Security Studies. He completed his PhD at Columbia University and an MS and BS at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to graduate school, Erik was an active duty officer in the United States Air Force and he continues to serve in the Air Force Reserve.
Arthur Holland Michel is a Peruvian-born writer and researcher whose work investigates the implications of artificial intelligence, uninhabited systems, and advanced surveillance technologies. His first book, EYES IN THE SKY, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in 2019. Arthur is a founder of the Center for the Study of the Drone, a research institute at Bard College in New York State where he served as co-director from 2012 to 2020.
Taniel spent 10 years in the arts before her LLM in International Economic Law, Justice and Development, meanwhile studying Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, History, Peace-building, Finance Law and Feminist Legal Theory as an associate. As International Representative for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, she advocates in UK, Brussels and UN on Trade, Economics and Disarmament Affairs, including issues of migration and weapons technologies. Taniel has researched resilience on the ground, particularly women's access to resources during/post conflict. She is a Visiting Lecturer in Humanitarian Intervention MSc, at the University of East London, contributing editor to the European Women's Lobby- Feminist Economics Working Group as well as a contributing researcher to the Oxford Internet Institute on autonomy.
