Perspectives of an Alternative AI-Enhanced and Human Centred Peace Ethics Today
Shifting Technological, Political and Financial Resources Toward a Comprehensive “AI for Peace Program”
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https://doi.org/10.26034/fr.jehe.2025.8985Keywords:
AI for peace, Artificial intelligence, Peace ethicsAbstract
Globally, military expenditures continue to rise, while capacities for conflict prevention, diplomacy, and peacebuilding remain persistently underfunded. Concurrently, rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping military strategy, information environments, and geopolitical dynamics. These developments underscore the urgent need for a renewed peace ethics capable of addressing militarized AI, structural security asymmetries, and the transformative power of emerging technologies. This essay argues for a shift from a predominantly militarized conception of security toward a comprehensive framework grounded in human security, multilateralism, and a proactive “AI for Peace” agenda. Drawing on United Nations frameworks, the 2025 UN call to rebalance military spending, contemporary peace research (including the 2025 Friedensgutachten of the German Peace Research Institutes), and current geopolitical challenges, the essay develops conceptual foundations, policy alternatives, and ethical criteria, and presents a focused case study illustrating how AI for Peace tools could support conflict mediation and peace assessment in the ongoing Russian–Ukrainian war.
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