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Short abstract

This roundtable examines the entanglements of military power with computational technologies and data infrastructures in fields such as healthcare, migration, and policing, and traces the counter-mobilization across different domains.

Long abstract

This roundtable examines the expanding military uses of computational technologies across different fields. As artificial intelligence, computing power, data infrastructures, and autonomous systems increasingly shape contemporary warfare, promising speed and precision, we will discuss how such promises travel and how they are contested in multiple domains. The discussion will address the debates surrounding military-technological development, particularly in terms of novelties and continuities, and trace the socio-material practices of counter-mobilization across different organizational forms. Our aim is to expand critical debates on algorithmic warfare beyond regulation of an assumed trajectory, toward understanding the contentious politics that actively question what these systems are for, who sets the terms, and which futures they make possible or foreclose.