Re: <nettime> Launch: Disruption Network Institute

[Jip de Ridder via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>]

Wauw, super interesting!

Thank you,

Jip

On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 12:02 PM Tatiana Bazzichelli via nettime-l <
nettime-l@lists.nettime.org> wrote:

> Dear Nettime list,
>
> yesterday, on the symbolic date of September 11, Disruption Network Lab
> launched a research programme: Disruption Network Institute.
> Investigating the Kill Cloud.
>
> In parallel to our programme of conferences and events, this new hub for
> investigations and empirical research will focus on how artificial
> intelligence impacts new technologies of war, automated weapons, and
> networked warfare.
> On the brand new https://disruption.institute you will find research
> abstracts and more.
>
> An essential novel aspect of the Institute's approach is the direct
> involvement of whistleblowers and other affected experts. With this
> approach, the Institute not only feeds into an important ongoing debate
> regarding the future of warfare, public participation therein, as well
> as the protection of civilians – it also directly mobilises the
> knowledge of people with first-hand experience of these systems from
> within.
>
> Four research fellows joined the Institute to start working with us:
> Lisa Ling (Whistleblower, Technologist, former Technical Sergeant, US
> Air Force Drone Surveillance Program), Jack Poulson (Executive Director,
> Tech Inquiry), Naomi Colvin (Whistleblower Advocate and
> UK/Ireland/Belgium Programme Director at Blueprint for Free Speech), and
> Joana Moll (Artist and Researcher).
>
> Our advisory board includes Thomas Drake (Whistleblower, former Senior
> Executive at the National Security Agency), Jesselyn Radack (Head of the
> Whistleblower and Source Protection Program at ExposeFacts), Alexa
> Koenig (Co-Faculty Director and Adjunct Professor, University of
> California, Berkeley School of Law), Khalil Dewan (Head of Legal
> Investigations at Stoke White), and many more.
>
> Cooperation partners are Human Rights Center, University of California
> Berkeley; Proto-Centre for Radical Matter: Art. Philosophy. Wild
> Science. at the Royal College of Art, London; Airwars at University of
> Goldsmiths, London.
>
> Any feedback is welcome!
> You can help spreading the word or reach out if you want to know more.
> institute <at> disruptionlab.org
>
> All the best,
>
> Tatiana
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> Disruption Network Lab
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