Officials are meeting in Geneva to negotiate urgent controls on autonomous weapons.
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Arun Dawson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of Iran’s Shahed drones and how the US cloned them.
Anthropic’s Claude is helping the US military choose targets to strike in Iran, but responsibility for the accuracy, strategy and ethics of the decisions rests with humans.
The UK is betting big on AI in defence to become “ten times more lethal”.
Too many people still believe AI safety is a future problem that can be fixed with simple laws – but the truth is very different.
Political theorist Elke Schwarz talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast on her new research about venture capital investment into defence start-ups.
The original 1984 film’s vision of rogue AI turning on humanity remains hugely influential.
Aerial drones are already transforming warfare. Underwater drones are next.
The age of autonomous weapons is upon us
While the technologies being explored under ‘pillar two’ of the AUKUS security pact are becoming clearer, New Zealand’s policy on autonomous weapons and military AI has become increasingly murky.
AI is going to fundamentally transform how nations wage far. By failing to address it, the defence review leaves Australia unprepared for the future of war.
The technology exists to build autonomous weapons. How well they would work and whether they could be adequately controlled are unknown. The Ukraine war has only turned up the pressure.
The sentient, murderous humanoid robot is a complete fiction, and may never become reality. But that doesn’t mean we’re safe from autonomous weapons – they are already here.
Anduril says it is “transforming US & allied military capabilities with advanced technology” – and it’s setting up shop in Australia.
New weapons will require new rules of war – but there is little appetite for regulation.
Sci-fi nightmares of a robot apocalypse aside, autonomous weapons are a very real threat to humanity. An expert on the weapons explains how the emerging arms race could be humanity’s last.
Sci-fi nightmares of a robot apocalypse aside, autonomous weapons are a very real threat to humanity. An expert on the weapons explains how the emerging arms race could be humanity’s last.
Modified commercial drones are getting more powerful and can easily be turned into weapons. A researcher argues for ways to prevent their development.
Science fiction has made us vigilant of ‘killer robots’ in our midst, but they’re far closer than many of us realise.
We already have some autonomous weapons – so talk of any ban should focus on where we draw the line on what is acceptable, and what is not. Can we at least agree on that?
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Professor of AI, Research Group Leader, UNSW
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Professor of Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of English, Macalester College
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Professor of Applied Ethics and Director, Security and Risk Research, University of Portsmouth
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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Associate Professor in Computational Logic, RMIT University
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Reader, Politics and International Relations Group, Leeds Beckett University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Political Science and International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University
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Visiting Fellow, Strategic Studies, Griffith University
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Postdoctoral Fellow, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Director, RMIT University Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Canterbury
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Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Technology Sydney