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autonomous weapons

‘I’m afraid I can’t do that’: Should killer robots be allowed to disobey orders?

By Arthur Holland Michel | Disruptive Technologies

One nuclear-armed Poseidon torpedo could decimate a coastal city. Russia wants 30 of them.

By Silky Kaur | Nuclear Weapons, Voices of Tomorrow

A loitering munition.

Russia may have used a killer robot in Ukraine. Now what?

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

nuclear football

Giving an AI control of nuclear weapons: What could possibly go wrong?

By Zachary Kallenborn | Disruptive Technologies

When AI is in control, who’s to blame for military accidents?

By Julia Ciocca, Lauren Kahn | Analysis, Artificial Intelligence

robot made of weapons dissolves into doves

Death of efforts to regulate autonomous weapons has been greatly exaggerated

By Neil C. Renic | Opinion, Technology and Security

peace symbol march 1958

What the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots can learn from the antinuclear weapons movement

By Zoe Levornik | Analysis, Nuclear Risk, Nuclear Weapons

It’s already too late to stop the AI arms race—We must manage it instead

By Edward Moore Geist | Uncategorized

To ban or regulate autonomous weapons – A Brazilian response

By Paulo E. Santos | Uncategorized

To ban or regulate autonomous weapons – An Indian response

By Monika Chansoria | Uncategorized

To ban or regulate autonomous weapons – A US response

By Heather Roff | Uncategorized

Emerging technologies and the future of humanity

By B. R. Allenby | Special Topics, Technology and Security