I speak on behalf of Human Rights Watch, a co-founding member of Stop Killer Robots campaign. The Martens Clause provides one existing ethical framework against which to assess autonomous weapons ...

Commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. Eric Smith, attends Modern Day Marine at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on April 30, 2025. (Lance Cpl. Valerie Escobar/Marine ...

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.

Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used to track, monitor, and kill people around the world, including in the U.S. and in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Experts say that we are in the middle of an ...