Toni Erskine
Twitter: @toni_erskine
Toni Erskine
Toni Erskine is Professor of International Politics and Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University (ANU). She is also Editor of International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law, and Philosophy, Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, and Chair of the 2020 Ocean Conference in International Studies. She currently serves on the advisory group for the Google/United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), ‘AI for the Social Good’ Research Network, administered by the Association for Pacific Rim Universities. Her research interests include the impact of artificial intelligence on responsibilities of restraint in war; how the use and design of AI-enabled automated weapons and decision support systems in war affect the role perceptions of the human and institutional agents who rely on them; the moral status of artificially intelligent entities; the moral agency of formal organisations (such as states, transnational corporations, and intergovernmental organisations) in international politics; informal associations and imperatives for joint action in the context of global crises; cosmopolitan theories and their critics; the ethics of war; and, the responsibility to protect populations from mass atrocity crimes (R2P).