- The decision to take a human life should never be delegated to a machine.
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I was right in the middle of a serious coding session when, without warning, my entire development environment was hijacked. My familiar code editor, file tree, and integrated terminal vanished,…
An unvarnished analysis of price divergence over the last 20 years based on Mark J. Perry’s Chart of the Century. Explore why critical services skyrocket while tech plummets.
SMASH 2000: Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: The SMASH 2000 is a “smart” fire control system developed by Smart Shooter, designed to be mounted on standard infantry rifles…
Clearview AI: Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: Clearview AI is a facial recognition platform built upon an unprecedented database of billions of non-consensually scraped images from the public…
PredPol (Geolitica): Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: PredPol (recently rebranded as Geolitica before ceasing operations) was a predictive policing algorithm designed to forecast the time and location of…
Project Maven: Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: Project Maven, formally known as the Algorithmic Warfare Cross-Functional Team, is a flagship U.S. Department of Defense initiative that leverages artificial…
MQ-28 Ghost Bat: Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: The MQ-28 Ghost Bat is an autonomous Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) developed by Boeing Australia, designed to act as…
The battle for the future of global security is currently being waged over a single phrase: “meaningful human control”. Explore how lexical fissures and strategic ambiguity are shaping the lethal autonomous weapons debate.
For over a decade, the international community has tried to regulate Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS). Explore how a small coalition has weaponized the UN consensus rule to block a global ban on killer robots, shifting power from human judgment to AI code.
As military powers integrate systems like Palantir and Project Nimbus into a “Digital Targeting Web,” human control over lethal force is vanishing. Explore 5 critical takeaways on how proprietary algorithms are dissolving the rules of modern warfare and challenging international law.
Palantir Gotham: Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: Palantir Gotham is a foundational data integration and AI decision-support platform designed to fuse massive, disparate intelligence streams into actionable targeting…
Lavender: Technical Dossier & Legal Analysis Lead Paragraph: The Lavender system is an AI-driven Decision Support System (AI-DSS) developed by the Israel Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 to automate the generation…