The project examines the role of intuition and emotion in military decision-making processes within the contexts of law and ethics. Of particular interest are the interactions between soldiers, algorithm-based technologies and the socio-material networks in which these technologies are embedded. It focuses on analysing emotional and non-rational moments in combat situations, and their significance for decision-making processes — particularly in the intermediate zone between law and ethics.
The project is part of the second funding phase of the interdisciplinary research network “Meaningful Human Control. Autonomous Weapon Systems between Regulation and Reflection (MeHuCo),” in which researchers from the University of Hamburg, the University of Paderborn, and the University of Bonn are examining the context of previously unconnected problem descriptions and disparate concepts of algorithmic warfare, bringing them together in an interdisciplinary research program.
