Over 70 states now support the CCW GGE ‘rolling text’ as a basis for negotiations
At the 2023 Meeting of High Contracting Parties of the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW), states mandated a Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Lethal...
News Briefing 25 August 2025
Editorial: Across recent reporting, we see a common pattern: rapid deployment, widening theatres of use, and thin guardrails of autonomous weapon systems. China’s parade of...
News briefing 11 August 2025
Editorial: Digital dehumanisation is not a metaphor but a mechanism. As the Automated Decision Research explainer defines it, it is the process whereby ‘humans are...
News briefing 28 July 2025
Editorial: The AI ‘race’ has moved from research labs to doctrine. The United States’ new AI Action Plan proclaims ‘a race to achieve global dominance...
News Briefing 14 July 2025
Editorial: Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are rewriting the calculus of security and defence, and this briefing offers a stark reminder that governance has failed...
News Briefing 30 June 2025
Editorial Autonomy is no longer a distant military aspiration; it is landing on today’s battlefields. Ukrainian “Spiderweb” and Russian loitering drones have created a field...
News Briefing 16 April 2025
Editorial: The global arms race to achieve military superiority in autonomous weapons and AI-driven warfare has intensified as nations compete to develop advanced technologies capable...
News briefing 19 March – 1 April 2025
Autonomy in weapons systems, and AI in security and defence AI, algorithms and autonomy in the wider world Facial recognition, biometric identification, surveillance
News Briefing 4-18 March 2025
Autonomy in weapons systems, and AI in security and defence AI, algorithms and autonomy in the wider world Facial recognition, biometric identification, surveillance Research and...
News briefing 17 Feb-3 March 2025
Autonomy in weapons systems, and AI in security and defence AI, algorithms and autonomy in the wider world Facial recognition, biometric identification, surveillance
News briefing 27 Jan-14 Feb 2025
Autonomy in weapons systems, and AI in security and defence AI, algorithms and autonomy in the wider world Facial recognition, biometric identification, surveillance
News briefing 13-24 January 2025
In one of his first major announcements as U.S. President this week, Donald Trump announced ‘Stargate’: a $500 billion AI infrastructure project to be funded...
