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 ...

In his sci-fi novel, Runaround, Isaac Asimov introduced the three laws of robotics to explore the moral boundaries of machine intelligence. His robots were programmed to preserve human life, obey ...

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. See smart ...

GENEVA — 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 time is ...

Over the past year, the development of emerging technologies, some with artificial intelligence (AI), has increased in all sectors of our societies, including in the military. Certain observers have ...

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 ...

Weapons capable of identifying and attacking targets automatically have been in use for more than 80 years. An early example is the Mark 24 Fido, a US anti-submarine torpedo equipped with microphones ...