AI warfare is already here
AI warfare has moved from hypothetical UN debates to urgent questions about control, accountability, and red lines.
The article opens at UN talks in Geneva, where lethal autonomous systems were still largely discussed as future hypotheticals in 2017. It argues that military AI is no longer a distant “killer robot” scenario but an active governance challenge. The key questions now concern meaningful human control, accountability, and whether international rules can keep up with battlefield deployment.
This article discusses how the relationship between AI and war has shifted from a distant hypothetical into an urgent reality. It opens by returning to November 2017, when researcher Branka Marijan attended a meeting on the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons held at the United Nations in Geneva. This forum convenes twice a year, with one of its focal points being lethal autonomous systems. At the time, the five days of discussion largely remained at a hypothetical level: if future wars involved so-called "killer robots," how should the international community regulate them? Who should be held responsible? Must humans retain the final decision?
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