The second edition of UN City Peace Talks explores artificial intelligence and autonomous technologies in warfare – and what consequences this has for international agreements and human responsibility for the use of force.
AI offers both opportunities and risks in a military context. New technologies can improve situational awareness, precision, and protection of civilians and military personnel. Yet increasing autonomy in weapons systems raises critical questions: Who is accountable for decisions made or mediated by machines? How much human control is enough? Can international law develop quickly enough to keep pace with technology and warfare speed?
The event brings together perspectives from the United Nations, Denmark, academia, defence technology, and international humanitarian law to explore how we preserve meaningful human responsibility for the use of force, and what role international cooperation can play in establishing the rules that govern it.
Programme
- 16:30 – Welcome and reflections on peace, technological change, and multilateral cooperation (Jorge Moreira da Silva, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNOPS)
- 16:37 – Keynote address on Danish perspective on defence, AI, and responsible technological development
- 16:45 – Setting the scene: Autonomous weapons and the state of play (Ingvild Bode, Professor of International Relations, University of Southern Denmark)
- 17:05 – Discussion and Q&A with Ingvild Bode, Jeppe Teglskov Jacobsen (National Defence Technology Centre) and Iben Yde (Rethink Advisory; Former Head of Center for Operational and International Law at The Royal Danish Defence Academy)
- 17:40 – Closing remarks
- 18:00 – End
