Joseph Chapa is an officer in the U.S. Air Force and holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Oxford. His areas of expertise include just war theory, military ethics, and especially the ethics of remote weapons and the ethics of artificial intelligence. He is a senior pilot with more than 1,400 pilot and instructor pilot hours. He currently serves as a military faculty member at the Marine Command and Staff College, Quantico, VA and previously served as the Department of the Air Force’s first Chief Responsible AI Ethics Officer. The views expressed are his own and don’t necessarily represent those of the US Government. You can read his weekly newsletter, Views Expressed, at https://chapainsights.substack.com/
Joseph Chapa, faculty member at the Marine Command and Staff College in Quantico, Virginia, gave a lecture at Providence‘s Christianity…
Joseph O. ChapaFebruary 15, 2025
The recent release of DeepSeek, a Chinese AI competitor to rival America’s own large language models (LLMs), has shocked many. But what does it mean for long-term Sino-US competition?
Joseph O. ChapaFebruary 3, 2025
Despite much chatter about the applications of AI to military hardware, three common myths about AI in national security still need correcting
Joseph O. ChapaJanuary 16, 2025
Though the idea of always having a human “in the loop” with autonomous weapons sounds reassuring, this framing actually obscures more than it clarifies.
Joseph O. ChapaNovember 25, 2024
To what degree are combatants in war morally liable to be killed, and to what degree are their adversaries morally permitted—or obligated—to kill them? To discuss this, Marc LiVecche sat down recently with Major Joseph Chapa.
Joseph O. Chapa & Marc LiVeccheMay 5, 2020
Veterans of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Regiment, more commonly known simply as the “Ox and Bucks,” hosted our small US military contingent. The locus for the day’s ceremony was the gravesite of Major John Howard, commander of D Company of the Ox and Bucks.
Joseph O. ChapaJuly 3, 2019