The case of South Africa v. Israel in the International Criminal Court is the first case in an international court in which the specter of artificial intelligence has been raised as evidence of war crimes. As a part of the InterPARES Trust AI cohort, and its Creation Working Group in particular, the CUNY Archival Technologies Lab is compiling literature on the precedents and theories informing the adjudication of military use of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and autonomous weapons. These writings are collected as a preliminary step towards further research regarding the application of archival theories of trustworthiness to the issue of AI and warfare in international contexts. There is a great need for scholarship on how material evidence of military AI is created, processed and understood, and archival and information scholars might start to answer questions of:
- Authenticity and verification of evidence of military AI
- Data ethics and critical legal studies
- Diplomatics and legal theories of accountability
- Use of AI in the processing of evidence
Archival Technologies Lab
The Archival Technologies Lab (ATL) is a center for research, teaching and public programming that seeks to remove barriers to knowledge about archival technologies and their uses.
Affiliated Fellows: Patrick McGee
