AI, war and (in)humanity: the role of human emotions in military decision-making

February 20, 2025 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Weapons Joanna L D Wilson

Contemporary armed conflicts are increasingly complex and, through rapid technological development, increasingly remote. This calls ...

The (im)possibility of responsible military AI governance

December 12, 2024 11 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Elke Schwarz

During 2024, efforts to address the governance of military artificial intelligence (AI) have gained momentum. ...

Trying to square the circle: the ICRC AI Policy

November 28, 2024 16 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Humanitarian Action / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Pierrick Devidal

The development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies brings significant opportunities, and risks, for principled humanitarian ...

Will AI fundamentally alter how wars are initiated, fought and concluded?

September 26, 2024 10 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Erica Harper

In the debate on how artificial intelligence (AI) will impact military strategy and decision-making, a ...

Transcending weapon systems: the ethical challenges of AI in military decision support systems

September 24, 2024 12 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Matthias Klaus

The military decision-making process is facing a challenge by the increasing number of interconnected sensors ...

The risks and inefficacies of AI systems in military targeting support

September 4, 2024 12 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Jimena Sofía Viveros Álvarez

Over the past decade, discussions surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) in the military domain have largely ...

The problem of algorithmic bias in AI-based military decision support systems

September 3, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Conduct of Hostilities / New Technologies / Special Themes / Weapons Ingvild Bode & Ishmael Bhila

Algorithmic bias has long been recognized as a key problem affecting decision-making processes that integrate ...

Artificial intelligence in military decision-making: supporting humans, not replacing them

August 29, 2024 13 mins read Accountability / Analysis / Artificial intelligence in military decision-making / Generating Respect for IHL / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Wen Zhou & Anna Rosalie Greipl

The desire to develop technological solutions to help militaries in their decision-making processes is not ...

Reinventing the wheel? Three lessons that the AWS debate can learn from existing arms control agreements

June 13, 2024 12 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / New Technologies / Special Themes Laura Bruun

For more than a decade, states have met at the UN in Geneva to discuss ...

The road less travelled: ethics in the international regulatory debate on autonomous weapon systems

April 25, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Autonomous Weapons / IHL / Law and Conflict / New Technologies / Special Themes / Weapons Alexander Blanchard

Efforts to address the ethical challenges posed by autonomous weapon systems are growing. In December ...

Falling under the radar: the problem of algorithmic bias and military applications of AI

March 14, 2024 10 mins read Analysis / Artificial Intelligence and Armed Conflict / Autonomous Weapons / Avoiding civilian harm during military cyber operations / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Gender and conflict / Human Costs of Cyber Ingvild Bode

Last week, states parties met for the first session of the Group of Governmental Experts ...

Online violence: real life impacts on women and girls in humanitarian settings

January 4, 2024 11 mins read Analysis / Cybersecurity and data protection in humanitarian action / Gender and conflict / New Technologies / Technology in Humanitarian Action Megan O’Brien

Online violence is not contained by the digital sphere – it is killing women and ...