06.06, 11:15–12:00 (Europe/Zurich), Flur 3.OG
This workshop uses AI integration into nuclear command and control as a lens to make visible a political quagmire already happening everywhere: speed outpacing governance, critical infrastructure privatised, and geopolitical competition eroding political will. From that diagnosis, the participatory workshop invites us to imagine where democratic organising can intervene, and what it means that reviving 1970s nuclear mitigation efforts is now the optimistic scenario.
AI is being deployed at breakneck speed across society, including in the black-box military systems that govern weapons of mass destruction, while the institutions meant to regulate it are collapsing in real time. This workshop uses AI integration into nuclear command and control as a lens to make visible a political quagmire already happening everywhere: speed outpacing governance, critical infrastructure privatised, and geopolitical competition eroding political will. From that diagnosis, the participatory workshop invites us to imagine where democratic organising can intervene, and what it means that reviving 1970s nuclear mitigation efforts is now the optimistic scenario.
