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2025 Symposium: Artificial Intelligence & International Humanitarian Law

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News and announcements

Professor Jovana Davidovic to give talk at the Palace of Nations at the UN headquarters in Geneva

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Global Conference on AI, Security and Ethics 2025 → UNIDIR

CLAS philosophy faculty member receives $1 million grant to further research on ethics of AI-enabled weapons

Monday, February 17, 2025

Jovana Davidovic, associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, will use the grant from the Research Council of Norway to develop ethical risk management frameworks for AI-enabled weapons, a rapidly evolving field.

Obituary of Phillip Daniel Cummins

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

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Events

TLCP Symposium: AI & International Humanitarian Law

Friday, April 4, 2025 (all day)

Boyd Law Building

Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems (TLCP), the University of Iowa College of Law's international law journal, will hold its 2025 symposium Artificial Intelligence and International Humanitarian Law on April 3-4 in Iowa City, Iowa.This symposium will focus on the evolving role of technology in armed conflict, with special attention to topics such as cyber warfare and AI, autonomous weapons systems and the law of armed conflict, and regulating AI in warfare. We aim to foster meaningful...