2025 IEEE CH Workshop on Algorithmic Anarchy and the Fractured Future of Cyber Humanities (AFCH)

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Cyberspace and Artificial Intelligence are not merely tools within the existing “broken world” of international relations but actively contribute to its fragmentation and exacerbate its inherent crises. This roundtable proposes to critically examine how these technologies have accelerated the erosion of the international liberal order and entrenched a sense of perpetual instability, mirroring the conference’s core theme of a world beyond repair.
We will explore how cyberspace, designed for connectivity, paradoxically fosters echo chambers and weaponized disinformation, fuelling polarization and undermining trust between nations and within societies. AI, promising efficiency, introduces algorithmic biases, exacerbates inequalities, and raises the spectre of autonomous weapons systems, further normalizing violence and eroding human agency in conflict. Our experts will analyse how these technologies contribute to the “denial” and “ignoring” of global challenges, creating digital distractions and filter bubbles that shield us from the realities of a broken world, even as media exposure increases.
Looking “sideways” at cyber warfare, “downwards” at digital marginalization, and “outwards” at the global AI arms race, the roundtable will ask: How have cyberspace and AI warped traditional IR concepts like sovereignty, security, and diplomacy? What new forms of power and vulnerability have they created? Crucially, we will investigate if and how these technologies can also offer “patches of hope” – spaces for digital activism, AI-driven early warning systems, or novel forms of cross-border cooperation in a deeply fractured world.
By dissecting the present impact and projecting future trajectories, this roundtable will offer a crucial “stock-taking” of how cyberspace and AI are not just symptoms, but active agents in shaping a “broken world,” demanding a radical rethinking of politics and international relations in the digital age. The workshop will be held in unction with the IEEE CH 2025 conference as a hybrid event, during September 8–10, 2025.

Participants

Chair: Giampiero Giacomellogiampiero.giacomello@unibo.it
Stella Blumfelde stella.blumfelde@unibo.ii
Michele Colajanni michele.colajanni@unibo.it
Luigi Martinoluigi.martino3@unibo.it
Oltion Prekaoltion.preka@unibo.it

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