Elke Schwarz

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Dr. Elke Schwarz (@ElkeSchwarz) is Senior Lecturer in Political Theory at Queen Mary University London. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics of war and technology with an emphasis on unmanned and autonomous/intelligent military technologies and their impact on the politics of contemporary warfare. Over the last decade, she has been involved in a number of policy initiatives on drones, autonomous weapons systems and military artificial intelligence. She is the author of Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies’member of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) and 2022/23 CAPAS Fellow at the University of Heidelberg. She is also on LinkedIn.