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Ethics and Emerging Military Technology (EEMT): EEMT Student Papers

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EEMT Student Papers (titles)

2024-2025

  • Acosta, Ernesto H. The Ethical Implications of Offensive Neurotech in Cognitive Warfare.
  • Berthold, William C. Bridging the Ethical Divide: Five Years of DOD’s AI Principles and the Imperative for a Careful and Virtuous AI Workforce.
  • Croom, Mitchell A. Civil Defense Against Disinformation.
  • Guiterrez, Feix. The Ethical Perspective of Artificial Intelligence in the Dominican Republic: A Comprehensive Study.
  • Logan, Andrea M. Biotechnology’s Pandora’s Box: Ethical Challenges and Strategic Solutions for Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention.
  • McBroom, Holley D. The Ethics of Using Directed Energy Weapons as Intermediate Force Capabilities.
  • Omotosho, Adobowale. Ethical Implications of Drone Warfare in Nigeria.
  • Redman, Selby E. The Ethical Implications of Reinstating the Draft.
  •    Schwartz, Austin. i5th Column: The Ethics of Countering the Insider Threat in an Age of Digital Deception.  

2023-2024

  • Battles, Timothy K. An Ethical Analysis of Hypersonic Missiles: The Use, Defense, and Perception of Emerging Technology .
  • Cohee, Adam. Don’t Look Up: An Ethical Survey of the Space Surveillance Tech Boom.
  • Cumings, Andrew Loyd. Si Vis Pacem, Para ut Bellator: A Naval Warrior Ethos for an Era of Fleet Battle at Sea.
  • Milavec, Stacie A. The Five Eyes Partnership: Reinforcing Global and National Security in a Technologically Challenging Environment.
  • Murthy, Pavitra. Examining the Potential Use of Large Language Models in Design Methodology and the Joint Planning Process.
  • Pennington, Adam. The New Ethics of Outrage: How Social Media makes Political Activism Nastier and Foreign Policy more Difficult.
  • Salamanca, Kriztófer Daniel Villalta. Addressing the Agathokakological Nature of Internet of Things Technology in the Military Context.
  • Spencer, Sterling S. The Threshold Problem: Legal, Ethical and Moral Considerations in Shaping Norms of Responsible Behaviors and the Use of Force in Outer Space.
  • Suh, Anthony D. An Ethical Argument for the United States to Revise its Policy to Encourage the Development and Fielding of Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems.
  • White, Steven. Ethical Dilemmas of Using Underwater Maritime Autonomous Systems (MAS-UW) Across the Competition Continuum in the Arctic.
  • Wisecup, John.  The Right Stuff? Ethics of Autonomous Combat Aircraft.

2022-2023

  • Chamberlain, Vincent DePaul, III. Neuroethical Framework to Analyze Soldier Enhancement Using Invasive Neurotechnology.
  • Cranfill, Susan. Hidden Figures, Ersatz Reasoning, True Harms - Why the US Should Adopt A Human-Centered Approach for Artificial Intelligence Development and Governance.
  • DeFelice, Arthur T.  Blood on Our Hands: Ethical Implications of the World's Largest Serum Repository.
  • Dunstan, Joseph A. Unraveling the Ethical Tapestry: Examining the Evolution of Genetic Engineering from Eugenics to the Present.
  • Florunsho, Abiodun Abidemi. Ethics, Expanding Navies and Climate Change.
  • Scott, Chelsea R. "Solving the Golden Hour Problem": What Biotechnology Can Do to Increase Survivability and Resiliency for Service Members in America’s Next Fight.
  • Smith, Mary. The Use of Narrow AI to Measure Trust through Digital Media.
  • Strahan, Howard, Jr. Why and How USSOCOM Can Apply ELSI to Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development.
  • Tramazzo, John C. Deepfakes and the Degradation of Authenticity: A Moral, Ethical, and Legal Assessment of Whether the United States Military Should Ever Employ Deepfake Technology.

2021-2022

  • Chacko, Ginto George. A Comparative Analysis of Ethical Approaches to AI – India and China.
  • Duke, Jason. Ethics and the “Intelligentization” of Warfare: A Brief Survey of Progress and Problems of the Artificial Intelligence Superpowers.
  • Gaddis, Deborah. The Ethical Perils of Predictive Policing.
  • Hughes, Shane D. EVTOLs and Flying Cars.
  • Perlaza, Lauren. Truth and Reality, Lost in Translation: Russia and the Ethical Implications of Emerging Technologies in the Information Environment.
  • Schultz, Wesley. Food Tech: Emerging Solutions to Enduring Problems.
  • Sierleja, Paul. Ethics of Technology in the People's Republic of China, With a Focus on Biotechnology.
  • Theletsane, Kula Ishmael. Drones as an Emerging Technology in the South African Military: Challenges for African Values and Ethics.
  • Yatsevitch, Michael. In Pursuit of Ethical Thinking about Blockchain Technology for the DoD.

2020-2021

  • Aiyappa, Suraj. Unethical Leverage of Emerging Technologies for Future Global Dominance: Stratagem in China’s Contemporary Statecraft and Potential U.S. Options.
  • Coffey, Ross M. Ethics-The Key to Operationalizing AI-Enabled Autonomous Weapons.
  • Francis, Andrew. Addressing the Ethics Concerns of Consent and Privacy in Humanitarian Cyberspace through Blockchain Technologies.
  • Hyde, David Kimball. Following @Virtue: Social Media, American Democracy, and the Quest for the Good Life.
  • Kosuda, Michael. Quantum Technology: Promise, Peril, and Possibility.
  • Phillips, Mark D. The Ethics of Emerging Technologies in the Diagnosis and Treatment of PTSD Among Service Members.
  • Prosko, Emille K. Weaponizing Values: Reimagining U.S. Cyber Strategy.
  • Robinson, Aaron Adam. An Ethically Assisted Future: A Forecasting of Artificial Intelligence Powered Ethical Assistants.
  • Tuggle, Richard Eugene. An Ethical Framework for Motivating Artificial Intelligence Leadership: A Case of Human versus Technical Dilemmas.
  • Wolfe, Michele K. Releasing Athena.

2019-2020

  • Bethell, Carlon A. Bridges Over Troubled Waters: The 5G Nexus for Maritime Domain Awareness in Archipelagic States.
  • Molloy, Brian T. Project Governance for Defense Applications of AI: An Ethics Based Approach.
  • Posey, Raymond, Jr. Enhancing Military Readiness Through Technology Convergence: Why Military Medicine is Behind and How We Move Forward.
  • Schmidt, Casey James. The Machined Humanitarian Optimizing Principled Humanitarian Action with Artificial Intelligence.
  • Southerland, Jason Alan. Man, Machine and Adversary: The Need for and Challenges of Meaningful Human Control.
  • Thorne, John Gilvan. Warriors and War Algorithms: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Enable Ethical Targeting.

2018-2019

  • Ang, Bertram Chun Hou. Deterring Maritime Gray Zone Aggression Ethically with Emerging Technologies.
  • Aune, Clayton. Building the Hyper-Capable Operator: Should the Military Enhance its Special Operations Warriors?
  • Coffin, Andrew M. Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: Can Targeting Occur Without Ethical Decision-Making?
  • Doan, Jackson. Artificial Intelligence: The Ethical Balance between Common Good and Demise of The Future.
  • Geissler, Hans. Bless the Fog of War - How Panopticon will Lose the War in Metropolis.
  • Hendrix-Semenova, Ashley. Intelligence Community Modernization for Today’s Information Environment: An Ethical Approach Towards Information Warfare.
  • Hubbard, Mary J. Civics for Insurrection: A Threat to Leader Authority or Ethical Course Correction?
  • Montgomery, Christi S. Trust in the Machine: AI, Autonomy, and Military Decision Making with Lethal Consequences.
  • Pyle, Jessica Lynn. Legal and Moral Standards of Command in the Navy and Responsibility for Machine Decision-Making.
  • Samples, Brooke A. Highly Illogical: A Case Against the Weaponization of Space.

2017-2018

  • Brine, Erik. Trusted and Assured Microelectronics: Technological Challenges, Bureaucratic Conundrums, and Foundational Dilemmas Facing Technology in National Security.
  • Fulkerson, Stephen. Ethical Dilemmas of Weaponizing Commercial Cyber Technologies.
  • Heins, John. AIrpower: The Ethical Consequences of Autonomous Military Aviation.
  • Johnson, Joanne. A Case for Virtue Ethics.
  • O’Flanagan, Thomas. Unfounded Trust: Potential Misuse of Artificial Intelligence in Civilian and Military Platforms.
  • Ostrom, Tracy. Brain Scans: A Modern Form of Torture?
  • Peltz, James. The Algorithm of You: Your Profile of Preference or an Agent for Evil.
  • Smith, Kenneth. U.S. Space Dominance: An Ethics Lens.
  • Stevens, Rock. The Open Gates of a Cyber Janus: The Effects of Technology on Modern and Future Warfare.

2016-2017

  • Del Re, Amanda. Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Take the Human Out of the Loop.
  • Phillips, Dennis. Future Rear-View Mirror: How We Learned to Love Lethal Autonomous Systems.
  • Ramiccio, John. Lethal Autonomous Weapons: Take the Human Out of the Loop.
  • Robinson, Free. Foundations of Ethics for Martial Technologies.

 

EEMT Student Papers (full text)

2021-2022

2020-2021

2019-2020

2018-2019

2017-2018

2016-2017