We are dedicated to the study of artificial intelligence, security order, and radicalisation as present manifestations of future challenges

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Events

  • AI and Communism: Narratives of Intelligent Machines Behind the Iron Curtain

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    The final workshop on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on 7 May, 2021 and focus on the histories of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and cybernetics in the Communist Bloc, with an emphasis on Czechoslovakia and Poland.

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  • From Čapek to Lem: AI in Eastern European Science Fiction

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    The second online event in a series of workshops on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on 15 January 2021 and focus on the representations of intelligent machines in Eastern European SF, with a particular focus on the works of Karel Čapek and Stanisław Lem.

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  • Workshop on Global AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe

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    The first online event in a series of workshops on AI Narratives in Central and Eastern Europe will take place at 4PM Prague time, 3PM London time.

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  • JewishAI

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    The first AI Narratives workshop topic: Golem of Prague – a mythical clay creature, created in the 16th century by Rabbi Loew to defend the local Jewish community from antisemitic attacks – and its relation to contemporary AI.

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Studies

  • Human Induction in Machine Learning: A Survey of the Nexus

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    As our epistemic ambitions grow, the common and scientific endeavours are becoming increasingly dependent on Machine Learning (ML). The field rests on a single experimental paradigm, which consists of splitting the available data into a training and testing set and using the latter to measure how well the trained ML model generalises to unseen samples.

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  • The Logic of Humanitarian Arms Control and Disarmament: A Power-Analytical Approach

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    This book examines and disaggregates, theoretically and empirically, operations of power in six international security regimes.

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  • Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies

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    by Anzhelika Solovyeva & Nik Hynek - This chapter comprehensively defines autonomous weapon systems (AWS), discusses their military utility and strategic importance, as well as draws attention to related normative and legal considerations.

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  • Operations of Power in Autonomous Weapon Systems: Ethical Conditions and Socio‐Political Prospects

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    By Nik Hynek & Anzhelika Solovyeva - The purpose of this article is to provide a multi-perspective examination of one of the most important contemporary security issues: weaponized, and especially lethal, artificial intelligence.

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Projects

The centre’s research activities fall into three categories comprising artificial intelligence, security order, and radicalisation together conceived as present manifestations of future challenges

Artificial Inteligence

The centre’s research project on Artificial Intelligence (AI) pursues synthesising machine learning research with philosophical expositions related to AI.

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Security Order

The centre’s research project  on security order aims to ascertain impacts of recent technological innovations on the social realm in connections to security governance and management.

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Radicalization

The centre’s research project on radicalisation focuses on the micro-dynamic of violence in general and radicalization in particular.

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Research

Publishing our research on artificial intelligence, security order, and radicalisation to share our views on the present manifestations of future challenges

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Human Induction in Machine Learning: A Survey of the Nexus

As our epistemic ambitions grow, the common and scientific endeavours are becoming increasingly dependent on Machine Learning (ML). The field rests on a single experimental paradigm, which consists of splitting the available data into a training and testing set and using the latter to measure how well the trained ML model generalises to unseen samples.

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Teaching

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Opportunities

Searching for collaborators researching present manifestations of future challenges

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