My research and writing examines how aritificial intelligence is upending what it means to wage and live with war. I leverage multi-sited and investigative ethnographic methods to foreground the human lives at stake in increasingly automated military conflicts.

I will defend my dissertation, Algorithmic Dispossession: Automating Warfare in Israel and Palestine, in the summer of 2024. Based on years of ethnographic research with Israeli veterans, Palestinian advocates, and ordinary civilians living at the cross-hairs of regional conflict, my study provides an ethnographic portrait of automated warfare’s profoundly human costs. 

My research has theoretical and pratical implications. Ethnographically, I ask what unchecked developments in AI mean for the human condition. Practically, my research investigates the risks posed by new technologies while outlining how automated  systems can be implemented without eroding fundamental human rights.