Autonomous weaponry and IR theory: conflict and cooperation in the age of AI

Reference

Amelia Hadfield and Alex Leveringhaus, ‘Autonomous weaponry and IR theory: conflict and cooperation in the age of AI’ in Andrej Zwitter and Oskar J Gstrein (eds), Handbook on the Politics and Governance of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023)

Uses realist, liberal and constructivist International Relations theory to assess how lethal autonomous weapons systems affect states' willingness to cooperate, and what the technology means for IR theory.