PhD Thesis
Title: Artificial Intelligence Demystifying the Human in International Humanitarian Law
PhD Supervisor: Andrea Bianchi
Expected completion date: 2025
This research looks at how the 'human' conception of IHL is challenged by the military use of artificial intelligent agents during armed conflicts. Drawing on critical posthumanist scholarship, it aims towards proposing a new framework of thinking the 'human' under IHL.
Profile
Anna Rosalie Greipl is a Research Assistant at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva Academy), where she works for the Disruptive Military Technologies projects. She is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the military use of artificial intelligence and its impact on international humanitarian law.
Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, she was a Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has also worked as a Thematic Legal Advisor on Urban Warfare with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2018 until 2019. Her previous positions include those of legal associate in the legal division of the ICRC (2017-2018) and intern with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Cameroon (2016-2017).
Anna holds an LLM in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights from the Geneva Academy (2018) and an LLM in Law and Politics of International Security from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2016). She has been awarded the 2018 Henry Dunant Research Prize for her Master Thesis on ‘International State Responsibility: The Role of Italy in Outsourcing Migration Management to Libya’.
Research Interests
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Human Rights Law
- New Technologies
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
Anna Rosalie Greipl is a Research Assistant at the Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights (Geneva Academy), where she works for the Disruptive Military Technologies projects. She is also a Ph.D. researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. Her doctoral research focuses on the military use of artificial intelligence and its impact on international humanitarian law.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS
Journal Articles
- Anna Rosalie Greipl, “Artificial intelligence in urban warfare: opportunities to enhance the protection of civilians?”, The Military Law and the Law of War Review, 61, 2, December 2023.
- Anna Rosalie Greipl, “Data-driven Learning Systems and the Commission of International Crimes: Concerns for Criminal Responsibility ?”, Journal of International Criminal Justice, 2023.
- Forthcoming: Anna Rosalie Greipl, “The Military Fantasy of Biometrics: Neglecting the Risks of the Normalizing of Bodies During Armed Conflicts”, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (JIHLS), 2025.
Blog Posts
- Wen Zhou and Anna Rosalie Greipl, “Safeguarding Human Judgment in Military Decisions: Artificial Intelligence as a Support, Not a Replacement”, ICRC Humanitarian Law and Policy Blog, August 2024.
- Anna Rosalie Greipl, “Artificial Intelligence Systems and Humans in Military Decision-Making: Not Better Or Worse But Better Together”, Articles of War, 14 June 2024.
- Anna Rosalie Greipl, “Artificial Intelligence for Better Protection of Civilians During Urban Warfare”, Articles of War, 26 March 2024.
- Andrea Bianchi and Anna Greipl, “State’s Prevention of Terrorism and the Rule of Law: Challenging the ‘magic’ of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, International Center for Counter Terrorism, Perspective, 17 November 2022.
Reports
- ICRC and Geneva Academy, Expert Consultation Report on AI and Related Technologies in Military Decision-Making on the Use of Force in Armed Conflicts, Geneva, ICRC, March 2024.
Selected Public Conferences
- Presentation on: “Artificial Intelligence and the Legal Weapon Review Process Present Challenges and Future Opportunities”, 23rd Congress of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, Mai 2024
- Presentation on: “The Military Fantasy of Biometrics: Neglecting the Risks of the Normalizing of Bodies During Armed Conflicts”, Conference on the Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces at the NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Mai 2024
- Presentation on: “Artificial intelligence and the rupture of the rationalist myth of military IHL decision-making processes: a move towards emotions in IHL?”, DILEMA 2023 Conference at the Asser Institute in the Hague, October 2023
- Lecture during the Advanced IHL Seminar for Academics and Policymakers at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), August 2023
- Presentation on: “AI and Urban Warfare Challenges”, 22nd Congress of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War, Florence, Mai 2022
- Lecture on: Artificial Intelligence in War, Geneva Summer School, July 2022
- Andrea Bianchi and Anna Greipl, “State’s Prevention of Terrorism and the Rule of Law: Challenging the ‘magic’ of Artificial Intelligence (AI)”, International Center for Counter Terrorism, Perspective, 17 November 2022.
OTHER WORK EXPERIENCES
Prior to joining the Geneva Academy, she was a Teaching Assistant at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. She has also worked as a Thematic Legal Advisor on Urban Warfare with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from 2018 until 2019. Her previous positions include those of legal associate in the legal division of the ICRC (2017-2018) and intern with the German Development Cooperation (GIZ) in Cameroon (2016-2017).
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
2018 Henry Dunant Research Prize