---
_id: '56282'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: "Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making
    processes that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The increased
    use of AI in making military decisions relevant to the use of force has sustained
    such questions about biases in these technologies and in how human users programme
    with and rely on data based on hierarchized socio-cultural norms, knowledges,
    and modes of attention.\r\n\r\nIn this post, Dr Ingvild Bode, Professor at the
    Center for War Studies, University of Southern Denmark, and Ishmael Bhila, PhD
    researcher at the “Meaningful Human Control: Between Regulation and Reflexion”
    project, Paderborn University, unpack the problem of algorithmic bias with reference
    to AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS). They examine three categories of
    algorithmic bias – preexisting bias, technical bias, and emergent bias – across
    four lifecycle stages of an AI DSS, concluding that stakeholders in the ongoing
    discussion about AI in the military domain should consider the impact of algorithmic
    bias on AI DSS more seriously."
author:
- first_name: Ishmael
  full_name: Bhila, Ishmael
  id: '105772'
  last_name: Bhila
- first_name: Ingvild
  full_name: Bode, Ingvild
  last_name: Bode
citation:
  ama: Bhila I, Bode I. <i>The Problem of Algorithmic Bias in AI-Based Military Decision
    Support Systems</i>. ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy Blog; 2024.
  apa: Bhila, I., &#38; Bode, I. (2024). <i>The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based
    military decision support systems</i>. ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy Blog.
  bibtex: '@book{Bhila_Bode_2024, title={The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based
    military decision support systems}, publisher={ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy
    Blog}, author={Bhila, Ishmael and Bode, Ingvild}, year={2024} }'
  chicago: Bhila, Ishmael, and Ingvild Bode. <i>The Problem of Algorithmic Bias in
    AI-Based Military Decision Support Systems</i>. ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy
    Blog, 2024.
  ieee: I. Bhila and I. Bode, <i>The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military
    decision support systems</i>. ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy Blog, 2024.
  mla: Bhila, Ishmael, and Ingvild Bode. <i>The Problem of Algorithmic Bias in AI-Based
    Military Decision Support Systems</i>. ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy Blog,
    2024.
  short: I. Bhila, I. Bode, The Problem of Algorithmic Bias in AI-Based Military Decision
    Support Systems, ICRC Humanitarian Law &#38; Policy Blog, 2024.
date_created: 2024-09-30T11:44:28Z
date_updated: 2024-11-26T09:49:48Z
has_accepted_license: '1'
keyword:
- Algorithmic Bias
- AI
- Decision Support Systems
- Autonomous Weapons Systems
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2024/09/03/the-problem-of-algorithmic-bias-in-ai-based-military-decision-support-systems/
oa: '1'
publication_status: published
publisher: ICRC Humanitarian Law & Policy Blog
related_material:
  link:
  - relation: confirmation
    url: https://blogs.icrc.org/law-and-policy/2024/09/03/the-problem-of-algorithmic-bias-in-ai-based-military-decision-support-systems/
status: public
title: The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems
type: misc
user_id: '105772'
year: '2024'
...