Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of annihilation.

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 ...

PURPOSE: BUILD AUTONOMOUS WEAPONS TO STRENGTHEN DETERRENCE. Widespread alarmism about autonomous weapons has undermined U.S. military competitiveness. Autonomous weapons are not inherently unethical ...

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 ...

This commentary is published in coordination with the 2025 Global Security Forum, of which Defense One is a media partner. The AI-powered weapons and systems that the Pentagon is racing to build will ...

Imagine a world where machines make life-or-death decisions without any hesitation or emotions, just artificial intelligence taking full control of deadly attacks. While it sounds like science fiction ...

GENEVA, May 12 (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 ...

Artificial intelligence is already being used to track, monitor, and kill people around the world, including in the U.S. and in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Experts say that we are in the middle of an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...