Get to know Jovana 

Dr. Davidovic's research and teaching interests include military ethics, applied ethics, social and political philosophy, philosophy of law, ethics of AI, and business and organizational ethics. She has published extensively on military ethics, ethics of AI, international law, and human rights. Her recent work has focused on AI and algorithm ethics in military settings and algorithm audits as well as just war theory, and refugees and displacement. Dr. Davidovic commonly teaches classes like Philosophy of Human Rights, Philosophy of Law, Ethics of AI, War, Terrorism and Torture, and Matters of Life and Death. Dr. Davidovic also has a secondary appointment at the Law School and is a Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, where she is leading a 3-year, $1,000,000 dollar research project on Ethical Risk Management of AI-enabled Weapons Systems. Dr. Davidovic has also served as a Senior Research Fellow at the United States Naval Academy since 2021. 

Select Recent Papers

• “Rethinking Human Roles in AI Warfare,” Nature Machine Intelligence (7): 1593–1595, 2025
• “Bridging Responsibility Gaps for Warfighting AI,” in Philipp Hacker (ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society, 2025
• “Soldier Enhancement, Consent and Long-term Care: the super soldier perspective,” with LCDR Forrest Crowell, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry (3): 707-720, 2025
• “Horizon Scan of Emerging Issues at the Intersection of National Security, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Performance Enhancement,” with Hereth, B., de Boisboissel, G., Bricknell, M. et al. Science and Engineering Ethics, 32(3), 2025
• “Jus Ante Bellum and AI-enabled Weapons,” with Mitt Regan, in Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence, eds. Maria Power and Maggie Savin-Baden, Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1-17, 2025
• “A Framework for Assurance Audits of Algorithmic Systems,” with Khoa Lam, et.al., FAccT ‘24: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency, Association for Computing Machinery, 2024
• “On the Purpose of Meaningful Human Control of AI,” Frontiers in Big Data, 2023
• “What is Wrong with Wanting a “Human in the Loop?,” War on the Rocks, 2022
• “Algorithmic Bias and Risk Assessments: lessons from practice,” with Ali Hasan, Shea Brown, Ben Lange and Mitt Regan, Digital Society, 2022
• “Operationalizing the Ethics of Soldier Enhancement,” with LCDR Forrest Crowell, Journal of Military Ethics, 2021
• “Algorithm Audits: Scoring the Algorithms that Score Us,” with Shea Brown and Ali Hasan, Big Data and Society (2021)
• “Reconsidering the Legal Equality of Combatants,” Journal of Military Ethics, 18:4, 2020, 268-286
• “Displacement as Significant Collateral Harm in War,” Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, special edition on the Philosophy of Refugees and Internally Displaced, eds. Isaac Taylor and Yasemin Sari 11:1, 2018, pp. 64-84

Select Other Publications 

• “AI-enabled weapon systems and ethical preparation for war,” with Mitt Regan, BABL AI and Stockdale Debates Report, September 2023, https://babl.ai/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/AI-Enabled-Weapons-and-Just-Preparation-for-War.pdf
• “The Current State of AI Governance,” with Mitt Regan, Ali Hasan, Shea Brown, Ben Lange, BABL AI, March 2023, available at https://babl.ai/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/AI-Governance-Report.pdf
• “Why Russian soldiers should lay down their arms,” Daily Nous, Feb 2022, available at Philosophers On series, https://dailynous.com/2022/03/02/philosophers-on-the-russian-attack-on-ukraine/ (translated into Spanish and republished, March 2022 in journal En Letra Derecho Penal, available at https://www.enletrapenal.com/adelanto; translated into Czech and published by the Czech Academy of Science, https://www.spravedlivavalka.org/, March 2022)
• “How should the laws of armed conflict address the rise of AI-augmented decision-making?,” Stockdale Debates, Nov 2021, available at https://stockdalecenter.com/blog/2021/11/05/how-should-the-laws-of-armed-conflict-address-the-rise-of-ai-augmented-decision-making/
• “Should the Military Stay Out of Politics?,” War Room, Jan 2021, available at https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/partisan-politics/*
• “Guantanamo Bay and the Ethics of Enhanced Interrogational Techniques,” Berkeley Forum, Georgetown University, 2020, available at https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/responses/guantanamo-bay-enhanced-interrogations-torture-and-the-value-of-international-norms
• “Collateral Displacement in War,” Ethics and International Affairs, November 2017, available at https://www.ethicsandinternationalaffairs.org/online-exclusive/*
• “Moral and Political Justification of the ICC,” The Critique, series on the Challenges and Opportunities of a Rising Africa, September 2016, available at http://www.thecritique.com/articles/the-international-criminal-court-africa/
• “Just War, ISIS and the War on Terror,” The Critique, series on Just War Theory: The Great War I, April 2015, available at http://www.thecritique.com/articles/just-war-isis-the-war-on-terror/
• “Review of Who Should Die,” eds. Bradley Jay Strawser, Ryan Jenkins and Michael Robillard, Oxford University Press, 2018 in Essays in Philosophy, 2020
• Review of Torture and Moral Integrity, Matthew Kramer, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press in Analysis (2016)
• Review of How We Fight, eds. Helen Frowe and Gerald Lang, Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press in Analysis (2016)
• “Just War, ISIS and the War on Terror,” The Critique, April 2015, available at http://www.thecritique.com/articles/just-war-isis-the-war-on-terror/

Committees and service

1. Placement Coordinator
2. Ethics and Public Policy co-Director
3. Information Technology Advisory Committee
4. Certificate of Human Rights Committee
5. AI-assisted Grading and Evaluation Committee, Faculty SPARC