Katherine Chandler

Fellow Gender and Disarmament

UNIDIR Fellow Katherine Chandler is an Associate Professor and Director of Culture and Politics in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She studies media and technology, including drone aircraft, artificial intelligence, data centres and PowerPoint, to understand how violence and militarism scale from the human body to global politics.

She is the author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines, and Media Perform Drone Warfare (Rutgers, 2020), and her research has been supported by the Public Interest Technology University Network.

Professor Chandler is currently part of a three-year research project funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark, The Distributed Agency of Humans and Machines in Military Applications of AI.

As a Fellow, Professor Chandler will build on the 2021 report that she authored for UNIDIR, Does Military AI Have Gender? Her new research will expand on this project. She asks how socio-technical parameters interact with international law and the norms associated with the use of force, studying how ideas of human differences are implicit in these frameworks.

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