1st Edition
Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence Challenges and Consequences
Introduction: Just War and Artificial Intelligence
Maria Power and Maggi Savin-Baden
1. Jus Ante Bellum and AI-enabled Weapons
Jovana Davidovic and Mitt Regan
2. Artificial Intelligence in Decisions on Armed Conflict
Robert H Latiff
3. Jus in Bello: AI is Not Just Another Weapon
Malcolm Brown, James McEvoy, and Eamonn O’Neill
4. Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the Technocratic Paradigm
Matthew J Gaudet
5. Above and Beyond: Drones, Artificial Intelligence, and Just War Theory
James Garcia
6. On the Morality of Fully-Autonomous Armed Drones
Christian Nikolaus Braun and Bernhard Koch
7. The Paradox of Distance: AI, Violence and Embodiment on and off the Battlefield
Noreen Herzfeld
8. Actions and Accidents in the Future Battlefield: The Consequences of AI for Military Chaplaincy and Jus in Bello
Kenneth Wilkinson-Roberts
9. Wargaming and the Just War
David J H Burden
10. Fighting a Just War in a Digital Realm
Zak Savin-Baden
Biography
Maria Power is a senior research fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Her work focuses mainly on peacebuilding within divided communities in Northern Ireland. Her most recent publications include Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Routledge, 2021) and Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts, (Palgrave, 2023). She is currently writing a monograph exploring the role of the Bible in the conflict in Northern Ireland which will be published by Routledge in 2027.
Maggi Savin-Baden is a professor and senior research fellow at Las Casas Institute for Social Justice Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She has authored, coauthored and edited 29 books in the areas of innovative learning, digital fluency, artificial intelligence, the postdigital, digital afterlife, pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, problem-based learning and the metaverse. She currently co-editor of the Metaverse book series. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs, does triathlons and wild swimming.
