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Dr Alexander Blanchard
Senior Researcher
Dr Alexander Blanchard
Dr Alexander Blanchard is a Senior Researcher in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Programme at SIPRI. His work focuses on issues related to the development, use and control of military applications of artificial intelligence. His current work focuses on the control of autonomy in weapon systems as well as organizational practices for the governance of AI. Before joining SIPRI, Alexander was the Dstl Digital Ethics Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute in London. Alexander was also previously Assistant Lecturer in Science and Technology Studies at the University of Copenhagen
Subject expertise
Artificial Intelligence (AI); military AI; autonomous weapon systems; defence industry; digital ethics; political theory; ethics of political violence; just war theory; changing character of war; sociology of science
Regional expertise
Global
CONTACT Dr Alexander Blanchard
Languages
English
Education
BA Joint Honors Philosophy & Politics and International Relations, University of Birmingham
MA Social and Political Theory, University of Birmingham
PhD Politics (Political Theory), Queen Mary University of London
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Look before we leap: peace, security and the second quantum revolution (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Bias in Military Artificial Intelligence (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2024)
External publications
- Blanchard, A., Thomas, C, Taddeo, M. (2024) ‘Ethical Governance of Artificial Intelligence for Defence: Normative Tradeoffs for Principle to Practice Guidance.’ AI & Society
- Blanchard, A. & Hall (KC), J. (2023) ‘Terrorism and Autonomous Weapon Systems: Future Threat or Science Fiction?’ Centre for Emerging Technology and Security.
- Blanchard, A., (2023) ‘Autonomous Force Beyond Armed Conflict’ Minds and Machines
- Blanchard, A. & Taddeo, M. (2023) ‘Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for Intelligence Analysis: A Review of the Key Challenges with Recommendations’ Digital Society
- Blanchard, A. & Taddeo, M. (2023) ‘Jus in bello necessity, the requirement of minimal force, and autonomous weapon systems’. Journal of Military Ethics
- Taddeo, M. & Blanchard, A. (2022) ‘Accepting Moral Responsibility for the Actions of Autonomous Weapons Systems – a Moral Gambit’, Philosophy and Technology
- Taddeo, M. & Blanchard, A. (2022) ‘A Comparative Analysis of the Definitions of Autonomous Weapons Systems’, Science and Engineering Ethics.
- ‘Blanchard, A. & Taddeo, M. ‘Autonomous Weapon Systems and Jus ad Bellum’. AI & Society
- Taddeo, M., McNeish, D., Blanchard, A, & Edgar, E. (2021) ‘Ethical Principles for Artificial Intelligence in National Defence’. Philosophy and Technology.