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Thursday August 7, 2025
08:45 – 09:15 Session 1 Secretary: Divisha Jain
Introduction
Carlo Schaerf – Director of ISODARCO
Guglielmo Tamburrini – Co-Director of the course
09:15 – 10:45 Session 2 Chair: Giuseppina Orlandini – Secretary: Divisha Jain
Cyber Security and Warfare
Bart Jacobs – Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
11:15 – 12:45 Session 3 Chair: Alessandro Pascolini – Secretary: Camilla Tuan
Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons
Herb Lin – Center for Int.’l Security & Cooperation, Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ, USA
15:00 – 16:30 Session 4 Chair: Mirco Elena – Secretary: Melis Ege Kunt
AI Implications for Military Policy
Steven Miller – Belfer Center, HKS, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
16:30 – 18:00 Session 5 Chair: Poul Christiansen – Secretary: Andrea Giacomazza
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Marco Gori – University of Siena, Italy
18:30 – 20:00 Session 6 Chair: Jooeun Kim – Secretary: Charles Segers
A Less Dangerous Use of AI in Armed Conflicts? Decision Support Systems under the Lens of International Law
Daniele Amoroso – Department of Law, University of Cagliari, Italy
Friday August 8, 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Session 7 Chair: Sandra Butcher – Secretary: Daniel Allen
Malicious Cyber Operations: Countermeasures in International Law and their Role in Cyberspace
Danielle Yeow – Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore
11:00 – 12:30 Session 8 Chair: Zhu Jianyu – Secretary: Francesca Silvestri
Regulating Autonomous Weapons: Recent Diplomatic and Political Developments
Peter Asaro – School of Media Studies at The New School, New York, USA
16:30 – 18:00 Session 9 Chair: Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu – Secretary: Chiara Fargnoli
Anti-AI Countermeasures on the Battlefied
Jonathan Kwik – Asser Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
18:30 – 20:00 Session 10
Anti-AI Countermeasures on the Battlefied (interactive exercise)
Jonathan Kwik – Asser Institute, The Hague, The Netherlands
Saturday August 9, 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Session 11 Chair: Mieke Massink – Secretary: Melis Ege Kunt
Cyber Intelligence
Bart Jacobs – Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
11:00 – 12:30 Session 12 Chair: Nadia Arbatova – Secretary: Adeola Fernandez
Implications of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies for Deterrence and Defence
Jim Stokes – Director of Nuclear Policy, NATO International Staff
16:30 – 18:00 Session 13 Chair: Carlo Trezza – Secretary: Krzysztof Zaluzny
AI and the Nuclear Weapons Enterprise
Herb Lin – Center for Int.’l Security & Cooperation, Hoover Institution, Stanford Univ, USA
18:30 – 20:00 Session 14 Chair: Aylin Guerzel – Secretary: Giordano Bertello
AI and nuclear decision-making
Alice Saltini – James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, CA, USA – Institute for Security and Technology, Oakland, CA
Sunday August 10, 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Session 15 Chair: Susan Martin – Secretary: Arina Yegorova
Chinese Nuclear Forces: AI/N3C, entanglement, and Risks of Nuclear Escalation
Jingdong Yuan – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, Sweden
11:00 – 12:30 Session 16 Chair: Alessandro Pascolini – Secretary: Rakel Svendsen
On the Possible Effect of AI on the Concept of Launch-on-warning
Alexey Arbatov – IMEMO, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
15:30 – 23:00
Guided Tour in Volterra and Social Dinner at Lischeto
Monday August 11, 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Session 17 Chair: Danielle Yeow – Secretary: Maham Gillani
How digital technologies reshaped capitalism
Dario Guarascio – Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
11:00 – 12:30 Session 18 Chair: Alice Saltini – Secretary: Anna Katharina Ferl
Chinese Perspectives on EDTs and Military Applications
Jingdong Yuan – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, SIPRI, Sweden
12:30 Group Picture
15:00 – 16:30 Session 19 Chair: Giampiero Giacomello – Secretary: Collen Kufakwababa
AI and cybersecurity: a delicate balance between data and knowledge
Maria Vanina Martinez – Artificial Intelligence Res. Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
16:30 – 18:00 Session 20 Chair: Leifang Hu – Secretary: Sarena Wang
Integration of AI in military early warning systems
Francesca Giovannini – Managing the Atom, HKS, Harvard Univ., MA, USA
18:30 – 20:00 Session 21 Chair: James Stokes – Secretary: Kseniia Pirnavskaia
AI and biosecurity: What’s in a name?
Anastasia Malygina – Expert in biosecurity, St Petersburg, Russia
Tuesday August 12, 2025
09:00 – 10:30 Session 22 Chair: Anastasia Malygina – Secretary: Elsa Kania
Blurring boundaries: Disentangling the Big Tech-military nexus
Dario Guarascio – Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
11:00 – 12:30 Session 23 Chair: Francesco Forti – Secretary: Greg Yoo
A study on the impact of artificial intelligence on strategic stability
Zhu Jianyu – Center for Strategic Studies, China Academy of Engineering Physics, Beijing, China
15:00 – 16:00 EXTRA ACTIVTY A) Proposed by W. Pal Sidhu
Open discussion: China, India, Pakistan trilemma and the 2025 nuclear crisis
15:00 – 16:00 EXTRA ACTIVTY B) Proposed by Daniel Allen
Open discussion: How to deter 21st century bioweapons
16:30 – 18:00 Session 24 Chair: Sandy Butcher – Secretary: Kritika Roy
Ethical and Legal Approaches to the Autonomy of AI Systems (panel discussion)
Daniele Amoroso – Department of Law, University of Cagliari, Italy
Peter Asaro – School of Media Studies at The New School, New York, USA
Maria Vanina Martinez – Artificial Intelligence Res. Institute (IIIA-CSIC), Barcelona, Spain
18:30 – 20:00 Session 25 Secretary: Lorenzo Gabutti
Wrap-up Session
Carlo Schaerf, Gian Piero Siroli, Guglielmo Tamburrini