Hypersonic and autonomous weapons are pushing warfare into a regime where decisions unfold at machine speed and across ...

Is it time for society to start having a serious discussion about autonomous weapons? With Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to meet on Thursday, and Taiwan sure to be a topic of discussion, ...

Defense tech startup Anduril Industries has faced numerous setbacks during testing of its autonomous weapons systems, according to new reporting by the WSJ. The problems cited include more than a ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued one of the sharpest calls yet for global rules on military AI in his Wednesday address to the UN General Assembly. “Weapons are evolving faster than our ...

This chart shows state positions on negotiating a new legally-binding instrument on autonomous weapons systems.

The world is sliding into a new era of strategic risk in which weapons once confined to science fiction are edging toward reality just as the legal guardrails that kept nuclear catastrophe at bay are ...

Using killer robots for war would also be a windfall for arms makers, Geoffrey Hinton said. AI has already transformed the battlefield with AI-driven drones and uncrewed systems. AI could mean fewer ...

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 ...

PLA-linked research indicates a concerted attempt to develop lethal, autonomous drone swarms specifically for urban warfare, ...

Amazon.com, Inc. AMZN-backed AI developer Anthropic is reportedly in a standoff with the Pentagon over how its artificial ...

The Autonomous Decontamination System, or ADS, would scrub vehicles, critical infrastructure and key terrain while allowing ...