Come and read our event summary for our First BISA Policy Lab on governance and artificial intelligence (AI) 🌟 Facilitating conversations on the issue of AI governance between policymakers and academics! 🎉 Come and read MA student Sophie Stringfellow's event summary 👉 https://ow.ly/Gszw50Z1vVW

How have American defense planners come to understand military AI as being a key technological domain of great power competition? In this article, I examine how an “offset imaginary” has shaped the Pentagon's efforts to frame AI as being essential to sustaining US military power.

References to the “imaginary” are everywhere in debates on technology, war, and security. In this article, Rubrick Biegon, Daniel Møller Ølgaard, and I take stock of this “turn” and map how imaginaries are used across IR and Security Studies. Read the full text below⬇️⬇️⬇️

What is the relationship between the imaginaries and the realities of algorithmic warfare? Daniel Møller Ølgaard and I explore this question in a new chapter written published in the De Gruyter Handbook of Global Security Challenges available here: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

The Terminator franchise is everywhere in debates on military AI. In a new short piece in Critical Studies on Security, I argue that responsibility for Judgment Day lies not only with Skynet, but with the human policymakers who designed, activated, and abandoned the system.

How does science fiction shape visions of future war? Duncan Depledge and I argue that science fiction is a key site where sociotechnical imaginaries of war are formed, contested, and (de)stabilised. Read our recent intervention on this subject below ⬇️

Short intervention on SF, utopian method and IR below 👇 'Utopia, dystopia, and method: SF imaginaries of war and political order' Thanks to @tfawatts.bsky.social and Duncan Depledge for the kind invitation to contribute www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

As I get closer to reentering the job market, I’ve finally created a website! If you are interested in my research, teaching, and policy outreach experience, you can find out more about it here: tfawatts.com

As I get closer to reentering the job market, I’ve finally created a website! If you are interested in my research, teaching, and policy outreach experience, you can find out more about it here: tfawatts.com