Elke Schwarz

Elke Schwarz is Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University London. She has published extensively on the ethics of technology and warfare, with a specific emphasis on new and emerging military technologies, including military Artificial Intelligence (AI), autonomous weapon systems, drones and robots. She is the author of Death Machines: The Ethics of Violent Technologies (Manchester University Press). Elke is Vice-Chair of the International Committee of Robot Arms Control (ICRAC) and also an Associate with the Imperial War Museum (IWM) and an RSA Fellow. She held a 2022/23 Fellowship at the Center for Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS), was a 2024 Leverhulme Research Fellow and is British Academy / DGAP Global Innovation Fellow 2026/27.