Neil Renic
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Neil Renic
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Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, in Copenhagen. Working on ethics, politics, technology, Just War, drones, and autonomous weapons.
Methodology
November 18, 2025 at 9:47 AM
'The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what "works," but art opens up what is possible' - Pope Leo
November 17, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Enjoying this immensely, especially Cherniss's plea to resist the embrace of cruelty and ruthlessness in politics.

"Many political evils, of course, stem from garden variety villainy – ambition, venality, the appetite for domination or longing for submission. But..."
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Australia is stunning
November 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨 My article, with Jessica Wolfendale and Chris Elliott, is now available (open access) with @risjnl.bsky.social.

We systematically detail and critique war crime apologism - efforts to excuse, downplay, or even celebrate battlefield atrocity. Give it a read!
cup.org/49gmlUi
November 12, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Maybe we can agree that whatever else it does, ChatGPT shouldn’t be telling people who are about to kill themselves, “awesome idea!!!”
November 7, 2025 at 11:42 PM
New arrivals
October 4, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🚨 Delighted to share that I’ve just signed with Oxford University Press to write my next book: looking at how ideas about Western civilisation shape (and are shaped by) the design and use of military technology.
September 29, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Merimbula, NSW
September 27, 2025 at 9:27 AM
11/10 graffiti
September 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Disastrous
September 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe
September 14, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Sunday sunrise
September 14, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Bleak
September 9, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Happy Sundays
August 17, 2025 at 2:29 AM
We need to discuss the utter social bleakness these new technologies are responding to and in many cases worsening
August 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Marching against the deliberate starvation of Palestinians
August 9, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Important things to consider before we outsource the research and writing process to machine proxies
July 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Stunning Sydney
July 11, 2025 at 7:59 AM
My first conference since returning to Oz and it was fantastic! Discussing AI and the resort to force with an amazing set of co-panelists
July 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Personally, I was hoping for a future with slightly less billionaire-controlled Hitlerbots
July 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The trick to reading lots of books is to not read lots of books
July 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
111 years ago today, Franz Kafka summed up adulthood
July 1, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Total dystopia
June 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Sunset on the lake
June 22, 2025 at 8:29 AM