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Samuel White
| Aug 28, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog
From War Booty to War Learning: The Legal Status of Captured Military Artificial Intelligence The law of armed conflict has long recognised that military victory carries with it certain legal consequences beyond the battlefield. Among them is the ability to capture...
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Aurel Sari
| Aug 25, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Targeting
Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article “Target Selection by Autonomous Weapons Systems: What Does the Duty of Target Verification Require?,” published as an Exeter Centre for...
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Timothy Dubber
| Aug 21, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
Using (and Abusing) Polling: The Martens Clause and Autonomous Weapons Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s recent article, “Abhorrence and Autonomy: On the Place of Public Attitudes in the Debate on Militarised Artificial Intelligence” published in...
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William H. Boothby
| Aug 12, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog
When the Defender Is the Attacker and Does It Matter? I was delighted to learn that Dr Jonathan Kwik has received funding for what promises to be a most important research project. Jonathan is fast developing a well-earned reputation as a thought-leader in complex...
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Michael Carey
| Aug 11, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog
Beyond Human-in-the-Loop: Battlefield Maps for Drone Autonomy The requirement that a human approve every lethal engagement, known as human-in-the-loop (HITL), is effectively dead, a casualty of the war in Ukraine. The requirement that commanders bear responsibility...
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Gerald Mako
| Aug 4, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
Compliance by Design IV: LOAC in the European Defense Industry Editors’ note: This is the ninth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law....
