Sustaining Human Agency in the Military Domain: The AutoPractices Toolkit at REAIM 2026
By Alexander Hedegaard On 4-5 February 2026, the third edition of the Responsible AI in the Military Domain (REAIM) Summit was held in A Coruña, Spain. The event was organised by the Spanish Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Defence, together with the A Coruña City Council. The third edition followed upon two summits held in […]
Toolkit of Best Practices to Strengthen Human Agency in the Military Domain
Download the best practices toolkit here Routine uses of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies affect military personnel’s capacity to exercise human agency. The impacts of using AI on the exercise of human agency in the military domain should be addressed via bottom-up forms of governance. Such a process starts with the practices performed by stakeholders in […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Loitering Munitions Report Online Launch Event
On 8th December 2023 13.00-14.15 (CET)/12.00-13.15 (GMT), an expert panel (including Laura Bruun, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) will discuss the major findings of the “Loitering Munitions and Unpredictability: Autonomy in Weapon Systems and Challenges to Human Control” report published earlier this year. You can register to attend this online event here. Co-authored by Dr. […]
The Creator of New Thinking On AI? Popular Culture, Geopolitics, and Why Stories About Intelligent Machines Matter
Whilst the depiction of weaponised artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in popular culture is often highly inaccurate and dramatized, Hollywood blockbusters provide the starting point from which many members of the public begin to develop their thinking about these technologies. For instance, news articles discussing AI are often accompanied with images of metallic silver skulls with […]
Five Questions We Often Get Asked About AI in Weapon Systems and Our Answers
By Anna Nadibaidze and Ingvild Bode The ongoing integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous technologies in weapon systems raises many questions across a variety of fields, including ethics, law, philosophy, and international security. As part of the AutoNorms project, we have contributed to many of these discussions over the past three years, including through […]
