September issue: The hype, peril, and promise of AI

swarming drones

Perdix drone demonstration.

Drone swarms: coming (sometime) to a war near you. Just not today.

By Maaike Verbruggen | Analysis

Illustration by Matt Field. Based in part on photos by gloucester2gaza and Julian Hertzog via Wikimedia Commons. CY BY-SA 2.0 / CC BY 4.0. Stylized.

The United Nations and the future of warfare

By Ariel Conn | Artificial Intelligence, Disruptive Technologies

The upside and downside of swarming drones

By Irving Lachow | Special Topics, Technology and Security