Just War Theory and Artificial Intelligence: Challenges and Consequences

by Maria Power (Editor), Maggi Savin-Baden (Editor)

Overview

Two of the most crucial issues facing humanity in the contemporary world are artificial intelligence and armed conflict. This book tackles them both, bringing them into conversation with one another and creating an understanding of their relationship. New developments in technology, especially within weapons systems, have challenged our understandings of just war theory, thus changing the nature of the questions to be asked of and by those engaged in conflict. Covering topics such as drone warfare and the use of wargaming by combatants, this collection seeks to answer those questions with essays from leading experts in the field. It will be a valuable resource for those interested in both the development of artificial intelligence generally and warfare specifically.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032576220
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	08/11/2025
Series:	Chapman & Hall/CRC Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Series
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Power is a senior research fellow at the Las Casas Institute for Social Justice, Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. Her work focuses mainly on peacebuilding within divided communities in Northern Ireland. Her most recent publications include Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom, (Routledge, 2021) and Violence and Peace in Sacred Texts, (Palgrave, 2023). She is currently writing a monograph exploring the role of the Bible in the conflict in Northern Ireland which will be published by Routledge in 2027.

Maggi Savin-Baden is a professor and senior research fellow at Las Casas Institute for Social Justice Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. She has authored, coauthored and edited 29 books in the areas of innovative learning, digital fluency, artificial intelligence, the postdigital, digital afterlife, pedagogical agents, qualitative research methods, problem-based learning and the metaverse. She currently co-editor of the Metaverse book series. In her spare time, she runs, bakes, climbs, does triathlons and wild swimming.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Just War and Artificial Intelligence   1. Jus Ante Bellum and AI-enabled Weapons   2. Artificial Intelligence in Decisions on Armed Conflict   3. Jus in Bello: AI is Not Just Another Weapon   4. Lethal Autonomous Weapons and the Technocratic Paradigm   5. Above and Beyond: Drones, Artificial Intelligence, and Just War Theory   6. On the Morality of Fully-Autonomous Armed Drones   7. The Paradox of Distance: AI, Violence and Embodiment on and off the Battlefield   8. Actions and Accidents in the Future Battlefield: The Consequences of AI for Military Chaplaincy and Jus in Bello   9. Wargaming and the Just War   10. Fighting a Just War in a Digital Realm