At the conceptual level the idea of killer robots is no longer a remote possibility. Already drones and other military machines can be piloted remotely, and some are equipped with missiles. Given the ...

Robot soldiers are being built in America to fight tomorrow’s wars – and the alarm is growing - The co-founder of Foundation ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres delivers the opening speech of the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, in Geneva on July 6, 2026. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP via ) Artificial intelligence ...

Many peace activists also support the ban including Jody Williams, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for leading efforts to ban land mines. Williams urged Germany to lead an international campaign ...

While drones already account for most of the bloodshed in Ukraine, the push to let AI, not humans, choose who lives or dies ...

The Droid TW 12.7, made by Devdroid, has been used in many of the attacks involving ground robots in Ukraine. Devdroid, CC BY For the first time, Ukraine has captured a Russian position using only ...

António Guterres labels lethal autonomous weapons “morally repugnant,” resurfacing issue that was central to Anthropic’s clash with the Pentagon.

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A Ukrainian drone developer recently announced that AI-controlled drones had killed Russian soldiers without human oversight—a new, and not entirely positive, milestone in modern warfare. It is no ...

Others, meanwhile, argue that the US has a moral obligation to build powerful autonomous weapons systems—lest our adversaries get there first.