-"The use of AI-based Decision Support Systems could disrupt the criteria for identifying co-parties to an armed conflict."
Philippa Webb
Dating apps borrowed ranking logic from chess and video games. What happens when that logic meets loneliness, recommender systems and the manosphere?
A forensic technical and legal analysis of Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 Q-UGV robot dog: specifications, armed variants, autonomy, IHL, exports and the 2026 CCW talks.
A forensic technical and legal analysis of the MQ-9 Reaper: specifications, combat record, IHL, accountability, 2026 Iran war losses and AI autonomy.
Abliteration.ai sells AI models with safety guardrails removed. An international security analysis of what it means for AI governance, law and arms control.
Astrology and racism run on the same cognitive engine: sorting people into fixed categories by something they never chose. Here’s the evidence.
An AI governance researcher and international lawyer reads Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, on AI, autonomous weapons and truth.
When Xi Jinping told Donald Trump that “the Thucydides Trap can be overcome,” he was not offering diplomatic small talk. He was issuing a carefully calibrated statement about the trajectory…
This is the second consecutive year I have sat through the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific’s flagship course, the Disarmament Toolkit, first…
Thomas X. Hammes argued in the Atlantic Council that fielding autonomous weapons is a moral imperative. The accountability record, the current state of the Geneva talks and recent warnings from AI researchers suggest otherwise.
Every July, a fairly unglamorous document lands on the desks of UN Member State delegations. It has none of the drama of a Security Council resolution or the visibility of…
First of all, I don’t think you’ll find many people who would say everyone is literally equal in every regard. Usually, when people say all races are equal, they’re talking…
A close read of Concordia AI’s Shanghai forum — where Bengio, Gill, and China’s leading safety researchers mapped agentic AI’s loss-of-control risk, and why it should worry LAWS watchers too.
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