A pledge against the use of killer robots, drones and other military weapons that once activated make decisions on their own. The Lethal Autonomous Weapons Pledge was signed in 2018 by more than two ...

Autonomous military vehicles have moved from experimental labs into active arsenals, reshaping how forces see, […] ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 18, 2025. The original video can be viewed here. Over the last decade, a new breed of tech billionaires has positioned themselves not ...

Nic Fleming is a science writer in Bristol, UK. “Latest: 8,300 students killed. 12 universities hit,” reads a news ticker at the bottom of the screen. “Authorities are still struggling to make sense ...

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 ...

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has faced numerous setbacks during testing of its autonomous weapons systems, according to new reporting by the WSJ. The problems cited include more than a ...

GENEVA (Reuters) -Countries are meeting at the United Nations on Monday to revive efforts to regulate the kinds of AI-controlled autonomous weapons increasingly used in modern warfare, as experts warn ...

In the 1983 film War Games, a supercomputer known as WOPR (for War Operation Plan Response) is about to provoke a nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, but because of the ...

References by Pentagon officials, the think tank world, and various world leaders to autonomous weapon systems often cite a U.S. military policy requirement that doesn’t even exist. Published in 2012 ...

Several nations met at the United Nations (U.N.) on Monday to revisit a topic that the international body has been discussing for over a decade: the lack of regulations on lethal autonomous weapons ...

Human Rights Watch welcomes the Chair’s background paper from last week and the latest revision of the rolling text dated May 12. We also welcome the opportunity to discuss these documents in an ...

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 ...