In a project seminar in the Master of Peace and Security Studies programme at IFSH, 16 students explored, under the supervision of Dr. Delf Rothe, how digital technologies – from algorithms and sensors to autonomous systems and large language models – are reshaping global security. What does it mean for surveillance, border control, or military operations when AI makes decisions? Who and what is made secure, and at whose expense?
Rather than studying these questions from a distance, students learned to approach digital technologies both critically and hands-on: using AI tools as sparring partners, translators, and idea generators, tinkering with the very systems they were analysing. The results are five original research projects – each combining scholarly inquiry with a public-facing digital artefact.
All results are now publicly accessible at the seminar‘s website: https://digital-security-studies.de/
