Research

Bächle, Thomas Christian (2025a, accepted manuscript). Autonomous systems, Concepts of the digital society, Internet Policy Review.

Bächle, Thomas Christian (2025b, accepted manuscript). The AI-Augmented Super Soldier: Enhancement, Interfaces and the Extended Cognition of Human-Machines. In Berenice Boutin et al. (eds.), Designing International Law and Ethics into Military AI. Springer/Asser Press.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Bareis, Jascha (2022a). “Autonomous weapons” as a geopolitical signifier in a national power play: analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies. European Journal of Futures Research, 10(20). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40309-022-00202-w

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Bareis, Jascha (eds.) (2025, accepted manuscript, forthcoming May 2025). The realities of autonomous weapons. Bristol University Press.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Liu, Xiran (2025, accepted manuscript). Showcasing power, performing responsibility? Introducing military AI discourses in China. In Thomas Christian Bächle & Jascha Bareis (eds.), The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. Bristol University Press.

Bareis, Jascha, & Bächle, Thomas Christian (2025, accepted manuscript). The realities of autonomous weapons: Hedging a hybrid space of fact and fiction. An introduction to the edited volume. In Thomas Christian Bächle & Jascha Bareis (eds.), The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. Bristol University Press.

Ernst, Christoph (2022a). Unfall, Interface und Lagebild – Der Abschuss von Iran-Air Flug 655 im Kontext der Debatte um autonome Waffensysteme. In Dominik Maeder (ed.), Unfälle. Kulturen und Medien der Akzidenz (Navigationen – Zeitschrift für Medien und Kulturwissenschaften), 22(2), 25-43, Universi. https://dspace.ub.uni-siegen.de/handle/ubsi/2285​​​

Ernst, Christoph (2025). From Network-Centric Warfare to Autonomous Warfighting Networks – Recontextualising AWS Imaginaries. In Thomas Christian Bächle & Jascha Bareis (eds.), The Realities of Autonomous Weapons. Bristol University Press.

Bächle, Thomas Christian (2023, October 12-13). The AI-Augmented Super Soldier: Enhancement, Interfaces and the Extended Cognition of Human-Machines. DILEMA. Designing International Law and Ethics into Military Artificial Intelligence, T.M.C. Asser Institute, The Hague, Netherlands.

Bächle, Thomas Christian (2024, January 29-30). Military AI and human augmentation: On the shifting boundaries between super weapons and super soldiers. Shifting AI Controversies – Prompts, Provocations & Problematisations for Society-Centered AI, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society & Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), Berlin, Germany.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Bareis, Jascha (2022b, July 6-9). "Autonomous Weapons" as a geopolitical signifier: Analysing AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies. EASST 2022, European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, IFEMA North Convention Center, Madrid, Spain.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Bareis, Jascha (2022c, November 20-22). "Autonomy" and "autonomous weapon systems" as a geopolitical signifiers: AI imaginaries in Chinese and US military policies. Autonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society, RWTH Aachen, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Ernst, Christoph (2023a, September 20-22). Human augmentation or augmented machines? Military paradigms and the problem of the unmanned/manned dichotomy in AI-assisted technologies. Technological transformations in armed wars and conflicts, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Ernst, Christoph (2023b, September 27-30). Die Abhängigkeiten des Super Soldier: Enhancement, Interfaces und die externalisierte Kognition der militärischen Menschmaschinen. Annual Conference of the Gesellschaft für Medienwissenschaft 2023, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Ernst, Christoph (2024a, May 22-24). Automation, networks, augmentation – Military technologies and the autonomy of imaginations. Imaginations of Autonomy. Paderborn University, Paderborn, Germany.

Bächle, Thomas Christian, & Ernst, Christoph (2024b, July 4-5). Military AI und Interface-Effekte. Autonome Systeme und Interfaces, Ruhr University Bochum, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin, Germany.

Ernst, Christoph (2022b, November 20-22). The Mode of Autonomy – Autonomous Weapon Systems and the downing of Iran Air Flight 655. Autonomy in the Digital Age: Rethinking Relationships between Humans, Technology and Society, RWTH Aachen, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany.