Dear Friend, Please find enclosed information relative to the 63rd Course of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) (www.isodarco.it). I would deeply appreciate your passing this information to your friends and colleagues and forwarding it to your mailing lists. Thank you for your collaboration and best personal regards. Carlo Schaerf (Director of the School) 63rd Course of the International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) First announcement Subject: Peace and Stability in the Age of Militarized AI and Cyber-conflicts: New Challenges and Risks The increasing militarization of advanced computing technologies raises new risks for peace, stability, and international security. The 63rd ISODARCO Course will examine these problems, focusing on AI decision-support systems for battlefield operations, autonomous weapons systems, AI for nuclear early warning, cyber vulnerabilities and security, the spillover of cyber conflicts to other warfare domains, the accelerating pace of AI-powered armed hostilities and the related problem of preserving human control on warfare. Venue: Volterra (Pisa, Italy) Dates: 6-13 August 2025 Information on the school and application forms: www.isodarco.it Course Directors: Diego Latella (ISODARCO & Senior Researcher (ret.) CNR-ISTI, Pisa), Gian Piero Siroli (Università di Bologna, INFN & CERN), Guglielmo Tamburrini (ISODARCO & Università di Napoli Federico II) Lecturers: Daniele Amoroso, Dept. of Law, University of Cagliari, Italy; Peter Asaro, The New School, New York; Marco Gori, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena; Francesca Giovannini, Managing the Atom, HKS, Harvard University; Dario Guarascio, Dept. of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome; Bart Jacobs, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Jingdong Yuan, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, Sweden; Pavel Karasev, National Assoc. for Inter. Information Security NAIIS – ?????, Moscow;vJonathan Kwik, Asser Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands; Herb Lin, Center for Int’l Security & Cooperation, Hoover Institution, Stanford University; vMaria Vanina Martinez, Artificial Intelligence Res. Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona; Alice Saltini, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, USA; Danielle Yeow, Lead Cyber Law & Governance, Centre for Int. Law, Singapore Nat. Univ. This information is sent out twice a year. If you wish to be cancelled from our mailing list, please send a message, with "cancel" in the subject line, to info@isodarco.it from the same e-mail address at which you received this message.