Geoff Ford Political Science x Digital Methods

Politics of autonomous weapons

The Mapping LAWS project began in 2020, with research funding from the Marsden Fund. In this interdisciplinary team I’ve worked closely with Jeremy Moses and Sian Troath on a number of research outputs, including creative and interesting digital outputs. Here is a selection of outputs I’ve worked on through the project. For full information check out the Mapping LAWS website.

open_in_new Publication | Jeremy Moses & Geoffrey Ford (2023) Encoding the Enemy: The Politics Within and Around Ethical Algorithmic War, Global Society

open_in_new Publication | Jeremy Moses & Geoffrey Ford (2021) See Spot save lives: fear, humanitarianism, and war in the development of robot quadrupeds, Digital War

Web interactive : Visualising themes in debates about autonomous weapons

Robot Dreams: an interface to explore popular culture references to robots

open_in_new Publication | Jeremy Moses, Geoffrey Ford & Sian Troath (2021) New Zealand could take a global lead in controlling the development of ‘killer robots’ — so why isn’t it? in The Conversation

open_in_new Publication | Jeremy Moses & Geoffrey Ford (2021) Is ‘Spot’ a good dog? Why we’re right to worry about unleashing robot quadrupeds, The Conversation

Text analysis: Twitter sentiment about robot quadrupeds

[In development] WART (Wayback As Research Tool)