Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends of peace,<\/p>\n
At the world-renowned Hannover Messe, German defense companies exhibited innovative production technologies “to support the security and defense industry.” Peace activists, scientists, and religious representatives have been warning for years about the danger of war posed by new automated weapon systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Instead of arms shows, we need a social dialogue that places AI within the framework of human ethics. <\/p>\n
AI is in the process of changing the world: science, economy, geopolitics. The topic also plays a role at the Munich Security Conference (MSC), but with a one-sided focus on military and criminal use. The side event “From Cyberwar to Cyberpeace” proposed by MSKver\u00e4ndern, which addressed the ethical dimensions and peace-promoting potential of AI, was unfortunately not taken up by the conference management. <\/p>\n
While AI is analyzed in the context of warfare and the digital competition between great powers, a link to insights from peace ethics, philosophy, and theology has been missing so far. There is also a lack of consideration for perspectives from the Global South. When one considers the global destructive potential of AI and its military and criminal use, this deficit is not just a blind spot, but a veritable security risk. <\/p>\n
An intensive dialogue on ethical questions regarding AI would be important\u2014between North, South, East, and West, and between politics, technology, ethics, and religious communities. In this regard, I was impressed by the Vatican’s sober and well-founded analysis: the role of human decisions in AI-supported warfare and the enormous AI resource consumption of energy and water are presented and weighed here (Antiqua et Nova, January 2025). <\/p>\n
Experts compare the historical-transformative significance of AI to the invention of the atomic bomb. I call for spending not only vast sums on the military use of AI, but also investing in the peace-building potential of AI, e.g., in education, medicine, ecology, and development cooperation. For AI, too, the following must apply: less readiness for war, more capacity for peace! <\/p>\n
And what are your thoughts on “Alexa, ChatGPT and Co.” at the MSC?<\/p>\n
Sincerely,
\nDr. Peter Bender<\/p>\n
Peter Bender is a political scientist and theologian and a member of the board of Religions for Peace<\/em> Ladies and Gentlemen, dear friends of peace, At the world-renowned Hannover Messe, German defense companies exhibited innovative production technologies “to support the security and defense industry.” Peace activists, scientists, and religious representatives have been warning for years about the danger of war posed by new automated weapon systems and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Instead of arms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27,26,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activities","category-denkmail","category-publications","category-to-the-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1938\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mskveraendern.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGermany e.V. He regularly participates in the dialogue between MSKver\u00e4ndern and the<\/em>
\nMunich Security Conference.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"