Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots campaign, is deeply concerned about the grave humanitarian threats autonomous weapons systems pose during armed conflict. These systems ...

AI-based military equipment that once engaged makes decisions on its own. Operating on land, sea and air, drones are the category of lethal autonomous weapons (LAWs) known best by the general public.

The rapid integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into military technology has sparked a heated debate among experts and ethicists. A recent Public Citizen report has raised alarms over the use of ...

First of all, I want to state for the record that I have never played a video game that involved violence or war. I think the last time I played a "video game" was Flight Simulator. As a result, I ...

PLA-linked research indicates a concerted attempt to develop lethal, autonomous drone swarms specifically for urban warfare, ...

The debate over whether lethal autonomous weapon systems (LAWS) – often called ‘killer robots’ – should be banned continues, although it’s far from settled. Should future wars be fought by autonomous ...

The post-Cold War paradigm of globalisation came to a violent end in February 2022 with Russia’s full invasion of Ukraine, and a dangerous, uncertain era is now unfolding, sparking a new global arms ...

Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots, welcomes the discussion of human rights that has taken place in this session. This body of law is highly relevant to autonomous weapons ...