Trump’s AI Race Action Plan: Removing Barriers to a Militarized Silicon Valley
Guest post by Tommaso Del Becaro The publication of the long-awaited America’s AI Action Plan by the federal government of the United States in July 2025 represents a crucial juncture in AI governance. Aimed at maintaining the US’ “unquestioned and unchallenged global technological dominance”, the AI Action Plan is the latest step by the Trump […]
Governing AI Technologies in the Military Domain from the Bottom Up: Map of Practices
As of September 2025, there are no international legally binding regulations specific to the development and deployment of AI technologies in the military domain. Top-down, state-led approaches to global governance in this area continue to face challenges such as different regulatory positions, competing interests, and diverging visions of the role of AI technologies in warfare […]
Why Investigating Tech Startups in Algorithmic Warfare Matters
On 29 May 2025, the tech startup Anduril Industries and the Big Tech company Meta announced a privately funded collaboration to design and develop extended reality products integrating AI for the US military. This is just one recent example of private tech companies’ growing involvement in supplying the US government with AI-based products for defence […]
Submission to the UN Secretary-General on AI DSS in the Military Domain
The following is the AutoNorms project’s submission pursuant to Resolution 79/239 on “Artificial intelligence in the military domain and its implications for international peace and security” adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 24 December 2024. The resolution requests the UN Secretary-General to seek views, including those of Member States, civil society, the scientific […]
Google’s Brave New World? Big Tech, Military AI, and the Trump Effect
In recent days, Google’s update of its AI principles that avoids clear ethical pledges in contrast to the 2018-version has gained attention. While this could be seen as a major policy shift of a big AI player, I argue in this post that it underlines an intensification of business activities that were already part of […]
What Can the Public Learn About AI Weapons by Playing Videogames?
By Paolo Franco and Guangyu Qiao-Franco Military-themed videogames are not only popular among consumers, but they also generate considerable commercial interest. The Call of Duty series, for example, is one of the best-selling videogame franchises of all time, having sold 425 million units and earning $30 billion in revenue since its debut in 2003. These […]
AI in Military Decision Support Systems: A Review of Developments and Debates
Download the report here By Anna Nadibaidze, Ingvild Bode, and Qiaochu Zhang A new report published by the Center for War Studies at the University of Southern Denmark reviews developments and debates related to AI-based decision support systems (AI DSS) in military decision-making on the use of force. Written by Anna Nadibaidze, Ingvild Bode, and […]
Navigating the Complexities of Exercising Human Agency in Human-Machine Interaction Across the AI Lifecycle
This blog is based on the breakout session titled “Responsible Human-Machine Teaming Across the AI Lifecycle: An Interactive Scenario”, co-organised by the AutoNorms project and Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) at the Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) Summit 2024 in Seoul, South Korea. You can watch the breakout session here. […]
“Mission Impossible”? Talking Popular Culture at the REAIM 2024 Summit
The simultaneous release of the films Barbie and Oppenheimer on 21 July 2023 was a cultural phenomenon. “Barbenheimer”—as this event was popularly called—captured global attention. It also invited reflection on how the public comes to think about the politics of nuclear weapons and what role pop culture plays in this process. Released a week prior […]
The New AutoPractices Project: Toward Governing AI Technologies in Military Decision-Making from the Bottom Up
On 1 June 2024, the AutoNorms team started a new policy-oriented project called AutoPractices. The purpose of the AutoPractices project is to initiate and accompany a process of social innovation to govern autonomous and AI technologies (AIT) in the military domain from the bottom up. The project aims to do this by addressing the practices […]