[EASST-Eurograd] Call for Papers. Special Issue on AI, Militarism, and Security.

[Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud via Eurograd]

Together with Marijn Hoitink (University of Antwerp), I am assembling a themed issue on ‘AI, Militarism, and Security’ for the newly established Cambridge Forum on AI: Culture and Society. 

 

In line with the journal’s mission, we aim to critically interrogate and intervene in a key challenge of our time: the growing and rapid militarism of artificial intelligence (AI). Our objective is to advance ongoing sociotechnical and interdisciplinary research on AI militarism, opening new pathways for understanding how AI intersects with war, security, and politics and how to challenge current developments. The special issue is intended to reach a broad audience familiar with critical debates on AI’s social and cultural impacts, but not necessarily experts on military uses of AI. You can find the full call here.

 

We are especially interested in receiving contributions that focus on the three main themes of the issue: AI and the epistemics of warfare; AI between warfare and the homeland; and the political economy of military AI. This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics and approaches:

• Theory development on security/war and AI.
• Interdisciplinary methodologies for interrogating AI and military/security.
• War/warfare and AI.
• Epistemologies of AI and war/security.
• Drones, swarms, and distributed intelligence.
• Military Command and Control platforms, simulation, and gaming.
• Platforms, stacks, and cloud infrastructure in and beyond the military.
• Empirical studies of AI experimentation in contemporary conflicts.
• Empirical studies of “domestic” use of AI for surveillance, control, and deportation.
• Intersections between the battlefield and the ‘homeland’, and the role of the technology sector therein.
• Shifting procurement, innovation, and experimentation practices related to military AI.

 

If of interest, please submit a longer abstract (up to 1,500 words), using this form, by February 16, 2026, that speaks to one of the three core themes of the issue.

Best regards,

Erik Reichborn-Kjennerud

Senior Research Fellow

The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

PI: RA10 Digital Twins and Hybrid Modeling. TRUST - The Norwegian Center for Trustworthy AI.

 

 The World According to Military Targeting, MIT Press, 2025.