PhD scholarship at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Military Artificial Intelligence, Peace and International Security

The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) is recruiting a PhD candidate to research military applications of artificial intelligence and their implications for peace and international security. We are especially interested in projects that examine how the development and use of AI-based military capabilities affect established practices of decision-making, human control, and accountability.

The project should connect a nuanced understanding of the dynamics of technological change to wider questions of arms control and international regulation. The position is based at the DIIS Centre for Peace Research and will thematically be placed under one of the three pillars of the Centre, namely Arms control in a time of arms races and war.

One of the questions that the Centre focuses on is how Nordic countries, including Denmark, can navigate a situation where the development of new technologies (e.g. AI and drones), along with increasing great power rivalry and competition in space, entail new types of security risks that traditional arms control models and treaties do not effectively regulate.

The successful candidate will develop an independent PhD project that speaks to the overall focus of the center and produces research relevant to Nordic and international debates on security and peace1 …