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Dr Vincent Boulanin
Programme Director
Dr Vincent Boulanin
Dr Vincent Boulanin is Director of the Governance of Artificial Intelligence Programme at SIPRI. His work focuses on issues related to the development, use and control of autonomy in weapon systems and military applications of artificial intelligence. He regularly presents his work to and engages with governments, United Nations bodies, international organization, and the media. Before joining SIPRI in 2014, he completed a doctorate in Political Science at École des Hautes en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Subject expertise
Autonomous weapons systems; artificial intelligence and robotics; arms production; defence industry; cybersecurity and surveillance technologies; securitization theory and risk governance; and international political sociology
Regional expertise
Europe, especially France and Sweden
CONTACT Dr Vincent Boulanin
Languages
French, English, Swedish
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Dilemmas in the policy debate on autonomous weapon systems (Topical backgrounder, )
- Arms production goes cyber: a challenge for arms control (Essay, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Artificial Intelligence for Climate Security: Possibilities and Challenges (SIPRI, Stockholm: December 2023)
- Retaining Human Responsibility in the Development and Use of Autonomous Weapon Systems: On Accountability for Violations of International Humanitarian Law Involving AWS (SIPRI, Stockholm: October 2022)
- Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Humanitarian Law: Identifying Limits and the Required Type and Degree of Human–Machine Interaction (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2021)
- Limits on Autonomy in Weapon Systems: Identifying Practical Elements of Human Control (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2020)
- Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk (June 2020)
- Responsible Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation for International Peace and Security (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2020)
- Responsible Military Use of Artificial Intelligence: Can the European Union Lead the Way in Developing Best Practice? (SIPRI, Stockholm: November 2020)
- Cyber-incident Management: Identifying and Dealing with the Risk of Escalation (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2020)
- Bio Plus X: Arms Control and the Convergence of Biology and Emerging Technologies (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2019)
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk, Volume I, Euro-Atlantic perspectives (May 2019)
- SIPRI Compendium on Article 36 Reviews (December 2017)
- Article 36 Reviews: Dealing with the Challenges posed by Emerging Technologies (December 2017)
- Mapping the Development of Autonomy in Weapon Systems (November 2017)
- Mapping the Development of Autonomy in Weapon Systems: A Primer on Autonomy (December 2016)
- Mapping the Innovation Ecosystem Driving the Advance of Autonomy in Weapon Systems (December 2016)
- Mapping the Debate on LAWS at the CCW: Taking Stock and Moving Forward (March 2016)
- Implementing Article 36 Weapon Reviews in the Light of Increasing Autonomy in Weapon Systems (November 2015) 27 pp.
External publications
- Boulanin, V., and Lewis, D.A., Responsible reliance concerning development and use of AI in the military domain, Ethics Inf Technol 25, 8 (Feb 2023)
- Boulanin, V., Regulating military AI will be difficult. Here’s a way forward, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March 2021)
- Boulanin, V., 'Mapping the Development of Autonomy in the Military Sphere', Paper presented during the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons Informal Meeting of Experts on lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems. Published in Robin Geiß, Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems, Technology, Definitions, Ethics, Law and Security, (Federal Foreign Office of Germany: Berlin, 2016)
- Boulanin, V. and Ogilvie White, T., 'Cyber Threats and Nuclear Dangers', CNND Policy Brief no 17 (November 2014).
- Boulanin, V. and Bellais, R., "Toward a High-Tech Limes on the Edges of Europe? Managing the External Borders of the European Union", in Elisabeth Vallet (eds.), Fences, Wall, Borders: State of Insecurity, (Ashgate: 2014)