Toni Erskine is Professor of International Politics in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Australian National University (ANU) and Associate Fellow of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at Cambridge University. She is Chief Investigator of the 'Anticipating the Future of War: AI, Automated Systems, and Resort-to-Force Decision Making' Research Project, funded by the Australian Goverment through a grant by Defence. She also serves as Academic Lead for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific / Association for Pacific Rim Universities 'AI for the Social Good' Research Project and in this capacity works clostely with government departments in Thailand and Bangladesh. She recently served as both Director of the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs (2018-2023) and Editor of International Theory: A Journal of International Politics, Law, and Philosophy (2019-2023).

Professor Erskine's research interests include the moral agency and responsibility of formal organisations (including states, intergovernmental organisations, and transnatioanl corporations) in world politics; the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on organised violence; the ethics of war; the responsibility to protect vulnerable populations from mass atrocity crimes; and the role of joint purposive action and informal coalitions in response to global crises. Her recent publications include the following:

• Toni Erskine. 2024. 'AI and the Future of IR: Disentangling Flesh-and-Blood, Institutional, and Synthetic Moral Agency in World Politics', Review of International Studies, 50th Anniversary Issue, Vol. 50, No. 3: pp. 534-559.
• Toni Erskine and Liane Hartnett, 2024. 'Images of a Statist Ethics in "Western: and Chinese IR Theory: Locating (and Deciphering) the "Moral Realism" of the Tsinghua Approach', The Chinese Jounral of International Politics, Vol. 17, No. 2: pp. 153-173.
• Toni Erskine. 2024. 'Before Algorithmic Armageddon: The Erosion of Restraint as an Immediate Risk of AI Infiltrating the Decision to Wage War', Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 78, No. 2: 175-190.
• Toni Erskine and Steven E. Miller, 2024. 'AI and the Decision to Go to War: Future Risks and Opportunities', Australian Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 78, No. 2: 135-147.
• P. Lu, X. Ren, T. Erskine, S. Guzzini, B. Buzan, B. Jahn, & J. Rosenberg, 2024. 'Forum: Debating the Chinese School(s) of IR Theory', The Chinese Journal of Internaitonal Politics, Vol. 17, No. 3: pp. 277-305.

Professor Erskine delivered the 2023 John Gee Memorial Lecture, which can be viewed here: 'Before Algorithmic Armageddon: The Immediate Risks of AI in War'. She is the recipient of the International Studies Association's 2024-25 Distinguished Scholar Award in International Ethics.