GC REAIM Expert
Dr Ingvild Bode is Associate Professor at the Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark. Her research focuses on processes of normative change, especially with regard to the use of force. She is the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council-funded project AutoNorms: Weaponised Artificial Intelligence, Norms, and Order (08/2020-07/2025). AutoNorms investigates how practices related to autonomous weapon systems change international norms. AutoNorms examines military, transnational, political and dual-use practices in China, Japan, Russia, and the USA. In autumn 2024, she will start a new research project entitled HuMach to examine how interacting with AI technologies changes the exercise of human agency in warfare. Further, Ingvild serves as the co-chair of the IEEE Research Group on AI and Autonomy for Defence Systems. Her work has been published in various international journals such as European Journal of International Relations, Ethics and Information Technology, Review of International Studies, International Studies Review. Ingvild’s most recent book entitled Autonomous Weapons and International Norms (co-authored with Hendrik Huelss) was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2022. Previously, Ingvild was Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Kent, Canterbury (2015-2020) and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science International Research Fellow with joined affiliation at United Nations University and the University of Tokyo (2013-2015).
